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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
William Scott 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Deb Gonyaw 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Besty Miller 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Ann Tisbert 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Shane Keady 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Bruce Shields 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Marjorie Urie 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Jim Hathaway 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Jesse Rogers 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
John Franklin 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Ann Tisbert 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
David Ainsworth 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Frances Busa 2014 President $0 $0 READSBORO PRESCHOOL INCORPORATED
Denise Rondeau 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 READSBORO PRESCHOOL INCORPORATED
Wilfred Mcallister 2014 1St Vice $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Lynn Bessette 2014 2Nd Vice $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Ivan Menard 2014 Sargeant At Arms $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Cindy Bond 2014 Secretary $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY FAMILY CENTER
Sally Olmsted 2014 Board Member $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY FAMILY CENTER
Eric Parker 2014 Board Member $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY FAMILY CENTER
Mary Corrigan 2014 Board Member $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY FAMILY CENTER
Rebecca Plummer 2014 Vice Preside $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY FAMILY CENTER
Adri Luhr 2014 President $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY FAMILY CENTER
Michael Marcotte 2014 Vice President $0 $0 ORLEANS-ESSEX VNA & HOSPICE INC
Robert Starr 2014 Secretary $0 $0 ORLEANS-ESSEX VNA & HOSPICE 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.