Vermont Nonprofit Navigator

Explore the organizations and people that power Vermont's $6.8 billion nonprofit economy.

By Andrea Suozzo of Seven Days

This tool was last updated in 2019. It is no longer being updated with new filings. For more info, contact: nonprofits@sevendaysvt.com.

Organizations are required to list board members, key employees and anyone making over $100,000 from this or a related organization.

By default, this table shows results from all filings. Select a year to narrow your search.

Name Year Title Compensation Other Compensation Organization
Linda Oskam 2014 Trustee $0 $0 SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INCORPORATED
Peter Brooke 2014 President $0 $0 WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC
Chris Adams 2014 Vice President $0 $0 WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC
Claire Walton 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC
Dan Jones 2014 Secretary $0 $0 WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC
Michael Trotsky 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC
Erin Quicker 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC
Paul Ramsey 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC
Kimbel Biele 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC
Corrina Collins 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC
Richard T Christopher 2014 President And Director $0 $0 CRUDEN BAY RISK RETENTION GROUP INC
Jeffrey P Johnson 2014 Secretary And Director $0 $0 CRUDEN BAY RISK RETENTION GROUP INC
John Lord 2014 Director $0 $0 CRUDEN BAY RISK RETENTION GROUP INC
Ruthann Sullivan 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Leslie Roth 2014 Board $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Polly Wheeler 2014 Board $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Linda O'Leary 2014 Secretary $0 $0 MANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC
James Salsgiver 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 MANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC
Shari Siegel 2014 Trustee $0 $0 MANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC
James Alic 2014 Vice President $0 $0 SPRING LAKE RANCH INC
Judy Elkin 2014 Trustee $0 $0 SPRING LAKE RANCH INC
Bruce Farr 2014 Trustee $0 $0 SPRING LAKE RANCH INC
Dana Foster 2014 Trustee $0 $0 SPRING LAKE RANCH INC
David Almond 2014 Trustee $0 $0 SPRING LAKE RANCH INC
Dan Jerman 2014 Trustee $0 $0 SPRING LAKE RANCH INC

About this tool

As of May 2018, Vermont’s 6,044 nonprofits reported $6.8 billion in revenue and $13.2 billion in assets in their latest Internal Revenue Service filings. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that nearly 18 percent of the state’s workers are employed by 501c3s.

Organizations like ProPublica and Guidestar both offer excellent tools that open up public access to the information contained in IRS 990s, the financial reports nonprofits file annually. But we wanted to be able to dive a little deeper — to see, search, sort and filter the organizations and people that make up Vermont’s nonprofit ecosystem.

So we created this tool. Like dairy? Try searching for the Vermont Cheese Council. How about horses? Check out American Morgan Horse Association or Spring Hill Horse Rescue. You’ll also find the University of Vermont Medical Center, the Committee on Temporary Shelter and Middlebury College.

Then, read Give and Take, our series of stories on Vermont's nonprofit economy.

See something interesting? Want access to this data? Let us know!

About the data

To build a list of Vermont nonprofit organizations, we pulled state listings from the Internal Revenue Service.

Some Vermont nonprofits — about one-third — file digitally. That includes all of the state’s largest nonprofit organizations, like hospitals and colleges, plus many smaller ones. The IRS makes those filings available as XML files for public download, and tools like IRSx make it possible to understand what’s in those data files.

In cases where electronic filings weren’t available, we pulled in PDF versions from ProPublica’s API, so that we could get a better idea of the organizations we were missing.

In all, you’ll find more than 13,500 filings from nonprofit organizations in this database. However, there are some caveats. Not all nonprofits file annual financial reports — those with limited annual revenue, as well as ones that fall into religious, governmental or other exempt categories, are not required to file. And even when organizations file 990s, they don’t always do them right.