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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Michael Read 2013 President $0 $0 VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC
Peter Waldman 2013 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC
Caroline Youngblood 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC
David Dudey 2013 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC
Marta Cambra 2013 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC
Susan Hoyt 2013 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC
Jo Anne Edwards 2013 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC
Connie Warren 2013 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC
Tess Glanville 2013 Member $0 $0 POKER HILL SCHOOL INC
Deborah Towne 2013 Member $0 $0 POKER HILL SCHOOL INC
Kurt Muller 2013 Member $0 $0 POKER HILL SCHOOL INC
Katie Langrock 2013 Secretary $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Darlene Murphy 2013 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Ian Wyatt 2013 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Brian Murphy Esq 2013 President $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Yael Friedman 2013 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Ted Adler 2013 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Mike Smith 2013 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Jeff Small 2013 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Michelle Little 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Dennise Casey 2013 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Tom Brownell 2013 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Robert Brown 2013 President $0 $0 VERMONT FUNERAL DIRECTORS & EMBALMERS ASSOCIATION
Chris Palermo 2013 President Elect $0 $0 VERMONT FUNERAL DIRECTORS & EMBALMERS ASSOCIATION
Adam Goss 2013 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT FUNERAL DIRECTORS & EMBALMERS ASSOCIATION

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.