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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Leslie Myette 2015 Trustee $0 $0 RIVER GALLERY SCHOOL INC
George Bernegger 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 RIVER GALLERY SCHOOL INC
Stan Piotrowski 2015 Director $0 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Jeffrey Small Cpa 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Walter Bruska 2015 Pres Emeritus $0 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Jennifer Harrison 2015 Director $0 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Nancy Russell 2015 Secretary $0 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Pat Mcdonald 2015 President $0 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Meg Herrington 2015 Vice President $0 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Steve Dale 2015 Director $0 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Bill Miller 2015 Director $0 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Bonnie Lee Smith 2015 Director $0 $0 BARRISTERS BOOK SHOP
Maggie Melvin 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 MALAYAKA HOUSE INC
David Myers 2015 Secretary $0 $0 MALAYAKA HOUSE INC
David Kohler 2015 Director $0 $0 MALAYAKA HOUSE INC
Harry Brigham 2015 Director $0 $0 MALAYAKA HOUSE INC
Cheryl Woodruff 2015 Trustee $0 $0 MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA
Edgar Corey 2015 Trustee $0 $0 MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA
Shirley Brown 2015 Trustee $0 $0 MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA
Todd Fenton 2015 President $0 $0 MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA
Tammy Holcomb 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA
Daniel Whitney 2015 Inner Guard $0 $0 MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA
Brad Saunders 2015 Outer Guard $0 $0 MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA
Richard Holcomb 2015 Escort $0 $0 MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA
Karen Stomski 2015 Secretary $0 $0 MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA

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.