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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Bruce Shields 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
David Ainsworth 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
David Lane 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
John Franklin 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Marjorie Urie 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Paul Bourbeau 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Paulette Routhier 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Stuart Farnham 2013 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
William Scott 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Deb Gonyaw 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Quint Eastman 2014 President $0 $0 LORDS WAY CHURCH OF CHRIST INC
William Eastman 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 LORDS WAY CHURCH OF CHRIST INC
Marion Harlow 2014 Secretary $0 $0 LORDS WAY CHURCH OF CHRIST INC
Craig Weatherly 2014 Vice-Preside $0 $0 TURNING POINT CENTER OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY INC
Lisa Cannon 2014 Director $0 $0 TURNING POINT CENTER OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY INC
James Sinkula 2014 Director $0 $0 TURNING POINT CENTER OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY INC
Marna C Whittington 2013 Chair - Charter Trustee $0 $0 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Allan Dragone Jr 2013 Vice Chair - Term Trustee $0 $0 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Louis Bacon 2013 Term Trustee $0 $0 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Anthony M Civale 2013 Term Trustee $0 $0 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Charles M Gately 2013 Term Trustee $0 $0 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Caroline Sneath Mcbride 2013 Alumni Trustee $0 $0 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Patrick L Mcconathy 2013 Term Trustee $0 $0 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Eve B Burton 2013 Term Trustee $0 $0 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Kimberly Collins Parizeau 2013 Charter Trustee $0 $0 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE

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.