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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Heather Hersey 2014 Director $0 $0 GUARDIANSHIP TRUST OF VERMONT INC
Rachel Colby 2014 Director $0 $0 GUARDIANSHIP TRUST OF VERMONT INC
Paulette Rocheleau 2014 Director $0 $0 GUARDIANSHIP TRUST OF VERMONT INC
Naomi Graham 2014 Secretary $0 $0 GUARDIANSHIP TRUST OF VERMONT INC
Wayne Hersey 2014 Chair $0 $0 GUARDIANSHIP TRUST OF VERMONT INC
Steve Stouffer 2014 President $0 $0 JUST BASICS INC
Victoria King 2014 Vice President $0 $0 JUST BASICS INC
Kerry Demartino 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 JUST BASICS INC
Tim Noonan 2014 Secretary $0 $0 JUST BASICS INC
Kimberley Lashua 2014 Director $0 $0 JUST BASICS INC
Joseph Kiefer 2014 Director $0 $0 JUST BASICS INC
Deborah Mcdowell 2014 Board Member $0 $0 TRINITY CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Katrina Meyers 2014 Chair $0 $0 TRINITY CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Jen Hurley 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 TRINITY CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Sr Ruth Ravey 2014 Vice Chair $0 $0 TRINITY CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Sr Joanne Lafreniere 2014 Secretary $0 $0 TRINITY CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Maria Horton 2014 Board Member $0 $0 TRINITY CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Roy Marble Pres 2015 Morrisville, Vt $0 $0 FEDERATION FUND FOR CONSERVATION AND TRAINING INC
Ed Wilson Treas 2015 Morrisville, Vt $0 $0 FEDERATION FUND FOR CONSERVATION AND TRAINING INC
Mike Macduff 2015 Colchester, Vt $0 $0 FEDERATION FUND FOR CONSERVATION AND TRAINING INC
Tim Meehan 2015 Montpelier, Vt $0 $0 FEDERATION FUND FOR CONSERVATION AND TRAINING INC
Vaughn Gross 2015 St Albans, Vt. $0 $0 FEDERATION FUND FOR CONSERVATION AND TRAINING INC
Mark Mccarthy 2015 Barre, Vt. $0 $0 FEDERATION FUND FOR CONSERVATION AND TRAINING INC
Myron Wheeler 2015 Colchester, Vt $0 $0 FEDERATION FUND FOR CONSERVATION AND TRAINING INC
Evan Hughes 2015 Barre, Vt. $0 $0 FEDERATION FUND FOR CONSERVATION AND TRAINING 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.