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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Michael Hone 2014 President $0 $0 KILLINGTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC
Richard Morse 2014 Trustee $0 $0 KILLINGTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC
Harry Ryan 2014 Trustee $0 $0 KILLINGTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC
Tao Smith 2014 Trustee $0 $0 KILLINGTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC
Gregory Mccormick 2014 Vice President $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
David Stahler Sr 2014 Trustee At Large $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Joseph Benning 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Joseph Flynn 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Stephen Gray 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
James Mcdonald 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Sara Simpson 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
David Beattie 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Marlin Devenger 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Patricia Emery 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
T Michael Flynn 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Daniel Heath 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Amy Mcgarry 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Thad Richardson 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
David Aronoff 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Laura Ashton 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
James Gallagher 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Peter Hopkins 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Lorraine Matteis 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Emery Noyes 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Kathy Hipple 2014 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY MEALS PROGRAM

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.