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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Christopher Lloyd 2015 Board Member $0 $0 OLD DOG DOCUMENTARIES INC
David Doolittle 2015 Board Member $0 $0 OLD DOG DOCUMENTARIES INC
Kim Clark 2015 Board Member $0 $0 OLD DOG DOCUMENTARIES INC
Pierre Fournier 2015 Board Member $0 $0 OLD DOG DOCUMENTARIES INC
Richard Waddell 2015 Board Member $0 $0 OLD DOG DOCUMENTARIES INC
Marlene Cenate 2014 Past Pres $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Don Serino 2014 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Bruce Bouchard 2014 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Ethan Ready 2014 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Richard Craig 2015 Chairman $0 $0 LAMOILLE VALLEY FISH & GAME CLUB INC
Matthew Nadeau 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 LAMOILLE VALLEY FISH & GAME CLUB INC
Denise Krouse 2015 Secretary $0 $0 LAMOILLE VALLEY FISH & GAME CLUB INC
Shelley Colvin 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Michael Harrington 2014 Director $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Ted Bird 2014 Director $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Keith Carey 2014 Director $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Michael Keane 2014 Director $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Heather Maneely 2014 Director $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Matthew Harrington 2014 Director $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Phillip Steckler Iii 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 MARLBORO COLLEGE
Barbara Higgins 2014 President $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Tia Rosengarten 2014 Vice President $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Barbara Estey 2014 Secretary $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Margaret Knoras 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Curt Cowles 2014 Trustee $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD HUMANE SOCIETY 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.