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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Ed Jolley 2014 Trustee $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Deb Norton 2014 Trustee $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Francesca Salazar 2014 Trustee $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD HUMANE SOCIETY INC
James Stack 2014 Trustee $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Patrick Burke 2015 President $0 $0 SOUTH BURLINGTON SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT INC
Matt Guyette 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 SOUTH BURLINGTON SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT INC
Martin Lalonde 2015 Director $0 $0 SOUTH BURLINGTON SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT INC
Betty Chamberline 2014 Chairperson Bod $0 $0 MEMBERS 1ST CREDIT UNION
Judith Wisell 2014 Treasurer Bod $0 $0 MEMBERS 1ST CREDIT UNION
Peter Case 2014 Director $0 $0 MEMBERS 1ST CREDIT UNION
Kathy King 2014 Chairperson Supervisory Committee $0 $0 MEMBERS 1ST CREDIT UNION
Rhea Rhodes 2014 Supervisory Committee Member $0 $0 MEMBERS 1ST CREDIT UNION
R Michael Murray 2015 Director $0 $0 CATV INC
Barbara Krinitz 2015 Director $0 $0 CATV INC
Linda Carbino 2015 Director $0 $0 CATV INC
Signe Taylor 2015 Director $0 $0 CATV INC
Karen Liott-Hill 2015 Director $0 $0 CATV INC
Peggy Allen 2015 Director $0 $0 CATV INC
Bob Gere 2015 Board Chair $0 $0 CATV INC
Frank Jones 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 CATV INC
Margaret Jacobs 2015 Secretary $0 $0 CATV INC
Paul Boucher 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 CATV INC
Robert B Mack 2014 Chair $0 $0 NORWICH UNIVERSITY APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTES LTD
Diran Apelian 2014 Director $0 $0 NORWICH UNIVERSITY APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTES LTD
Gen Alfred M Gray 2014 Director $0 $0 NORWICH UNIVERSITY APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTES LTD

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.