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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Barbara Ardell 2015 Director $0 $0 MOUNTAIN VALLEY HEALTH COUNCIL INC
Charles A Woods 2015 Director $0 $0 MOUNTAIN VALLEY HEALTH COUNCIL INC
Alison Walsh 2015 Secretary $0 $0 MOUNTAIN VALLEY HEALTH COUNCIL INC
Bill Mason 2014 President $0 $0 HARTFORD YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION
Justin Barwood 2014 Vice President $0 $0 HARTFORD YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION
Sarah Morlock 2014 Secretary $0 $0 HARTFORD YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION
Alex Defelice 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 HARTFORD YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION
Amy Aher 2014 Board Member $0 $0 HARTFORD YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION
Cynthia Powers 2014 Director $0 $0 ORANGE COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER INC
Jennie Martin 2014 Director $0 $0 ORANGE COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER INC
Luke Jandreau 2014 Director $0 $0 ORANGE COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER INC
Heidi Allen-Goodrich 2014 Secretary $0 $0 ORANGE COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER INC
Cathleen Barkley 2014 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC
Ben Joseph 2014 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC
Frank Koss 2014 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC
Kristin Wright 2014 Secretary $0 $0 CHITTENDEN CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC
Eleanor Tison 2015 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FARM AND FOOD LINK
Carolyn Lane 2014 President $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD ON THE MOVE INC
Mary Perry 2014 Vice-President $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD ON THE MOVE INC
Sandra Macgillivray 2014 Secretary $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD ON THE MOVE INC
Richard Dexter 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD ON THE MOVE INC
Carol Eramo 2014 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD ON THE MOVE INC
Reuben Allen 2014 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD ON THE MOVE INC
Andy Bladyka 2014 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD ON THE MOVE INC
Barbara Sanderson 2014 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD ON THE MOVE 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.