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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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 Leipold 2015 Secretary/Treas $0 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY SPORTSMANS CLUB I
Stephen Benard 2014 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC C/O SHERRIFF GARY FORREST
Jed Davis 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT FRESH NETWORK CORPORATION
Scot Emerson 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT FRESH NETWORK CORPORATION
Sean Buchanan 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT FRESH NETWORK CORPORATION
Lisa Gosselin 2015 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT FRESH NETWORK CORPORATION
Scott Woolsey 2015 President $0 $0 VERMONT FRESH NETWORK CORPORATION
Betsy Jondro 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 MAD RIVER PATH ASSOCIATION
Rocky Bleier 2015 Director $0 $0 MAD RIVER PATH ASSOCIATION
Harrison Snapp 2015 Director $0 $0 MAD RIVER PATH ASSOCIATION
Dori Ross 2015 Director $0 $0 MAD RIVER PATH ASSOCIATION
Katie Bricker 2014 Vp $0 $0 SAXTONS RIVER MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
Amy Mason 2016 Chair $0 $0 WOMENSAFE INC
Brian Hoar 2016 President $0 $0 VERMONT AUTOMOBILE DEALERS INC
Michael P Chmielewski 2014 Director $0 $0 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE FIRE AND RESCUE INC
Joanne Lebrun 2014 Director $0 $0 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE FIRE AND RESCUE INC
Patricia Mascis 2014 Director $0 $0 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE FIRE AND RESCUE INC
Thomas F Powers Iii 2014 Chair $0 $0 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE FIRE AND RESCUE INC
Llyn Rice 2015 President $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL
Mary Lower 2015 Vice Preside $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL
Michaela Granstrom 2015 Secretary $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL
David Sandler 2015 Director $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL
Donna Bailey 2015 Director $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL
Franklin James Levinson 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 CALCUTTA KIDS INC
Jeremy Schuster 2015 Clerk $0 $0 CALCUTTA KIDS 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.