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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Noreen Gardner 2014 Secretary $0 $0 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE AUXILIARY
Nancy Whitten 2014 Trustee $0 $0 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE AUXILIARY
Beverly Petrelis 2014 Trustee $0 $0 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE AUXILIARY
Bradford Holden 2015 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF LAND SURVEYORS INC
Mark Day 2015 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF LAND SURVEYORS INC
Lisa Ginett 2015 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF LAND SURVEYORS INC
Keith Van Iderstine 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF LAND SURVEYORS INC
Gayle Burchard 2015 President $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF LAND SURVEYORS INC
Ian Jewkes 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF LAND SURVEYORS INC
Neil Houston 2015 Sargeant At Arms $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Edward Garrett 2015 Commander $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Carrol Bird 2015 Second Vice And Adjutant $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Denise Anderson 2015 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
Jane Darrach 2015 Co-Vice President $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
Anne Hill 2015 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
David Nierenberg 2015 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
Cathryn Nunlist 2015 Secretary $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
Cass Olsen 2015 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
Merritt Patridge 2015 President $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
Roger Shepard 2015 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
Timothy Van Leer 2015 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
Fred Walter 2015 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
David Ferm 2015 President $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY ARTS
Robert Dalury 2015 Secretary $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY ARTS
Richard Rubin 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY ARTS

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.