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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Ted Degener 2015 Vice President $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY ARTS
Matt Frazee 2015 Member At Large $0 $0 VERMONT RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION
Melissa Cate 2015 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION
Betsy Terry 2015 Executive Direc $0 $0 VERMONT RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION
Geoff Beyer 2015 Member-At-Large $0 $0 VERMONT RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION
Jill Kearney Niles 2015 Member-At-Large $0 $0 VERMONT RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION
Andy Cappello 2015 President $0 $0 VERMONT RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION
Ejay Bishop 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION
Mary Bell 2014 Vice Chair $0 $0 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Harold Pyke 2014 Trustee $0 $0 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Nida Tansey 2014 Trustee $0 $0 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Jessica Frazer-Farnham 2014 Trustee $0 $0 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Michael Newbold 2014 Trustee $0 $0 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Pauline Ouelette 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Nancy Loux 2014 Secretary $0 $0 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Susan Matteson 2014 Chair $0 $0 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Catherine Conley 2014 Administrator $0 $0 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Denise Cushwa 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SKI MUSEUM INC
Bill Mccollom 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SKI MUSEUM INC
Foster Chandler 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SKI MUSEUM INC
Parker Riehle 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SKI MUSEUM INC
Rick Moulton 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SKI MUSEUM INC
Rick Hamlin 2015 Chairman $0 $0 VERMONT SKI MUSEUM INC
Jann Perkins 2015 Vice- Chairm $0 $0 VERMONT SKI MUSEUM INC
Greg Morrill 2015 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT SKI MUSEUM 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.