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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Ernie Wheeler 2014 Trustee $0 $0 PLUMBERS & PIPEFITTERS LOCAL 693 HEALTH & WELFARE FUND
Rachel Hurwitz 2015 2014 Chapter President $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Elise Mench 2015 2014 Vp Member Development $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Lorna Ricard 2014 President $0 $0 THE HARTFORD LIBRARY
Mary Boooth Benton 2014 Vice President $0 $0 THE HARTFORD LIBRARY
Carole Haehnel 2014 Secretary $0 $0 THE HARTFORD LIBRARY
Phyllis Bettis 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 THE HARTFORD LIBRARY
Lani Janisse 2014 Director $0 $0 THE HARTFORD LIBRARY
Karen Mcknight 2014 President $0 $0 VERMONT MORGAN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC
Kathlyn Furr 2014 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT MORGAN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC
Deborah Blackett 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT MORGAN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC
Jennifer Hopper 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT MORGAN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC
Mary Jane Nau 2014 Vice Preside $0 $0 VERMONT MORGAN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC
Kevin Shortell 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT MORGAN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC
Denny Emerson 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT MORGAN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC
Eric Wolinsky 2014 Director $0 $0 ST ALBANS AREA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC
Steve Cushing 2014 President $0 $0 ST ALBANS AREA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC
Joshua Koldys 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 ST ALBANS AREA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC
Tim Camisa 2014 Director $0 $0 ST ALBANS AREA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC
Steve Langevin 2014 Director $0 $0 ST ALBANS AREA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC
Kate Wolinsky 2014 Director $0 $0 ST ALBANS AREA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC
Priscilla Alexander 2014 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Susan Paris Borden 2014 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Suzanne Brundage 2014 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Matthew Clarke 2014 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION

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.