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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
David Remington 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC
Lizabeth Antonoff 2014 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC
Thomas Kavet 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 INNER FIRE
Marshall Hammond 2014 Vice President $0 $0 INNER FIRE
Laurie Rabut 2014 Secretary $0 $0 INNER FIRE
Kerri Lamb 2014 Secretary $0 $0 SPAULDING HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION LTD
David Lacroix 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 SPAULDING HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION LTD
Brenda Waterhouse 2014 Director $0 $0 SPAULDING HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION LTD
Michele Pino 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND HEAD START ASSOCIATION
Jeanne Agri 2013 Secretary $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND HEAD START ASSOCIATION
Marianne Miller 2013 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND HEAD START ASSOCIATION
Ben Allen 2013 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND HEAD START ASSOCIATION
Monette Ferguson 2013 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND HEAD START ASSOCIATION
Alyssa Doyle 2013 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND HEAD START ASSOCIATION
Crystal Royea 2013 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND HEAD START ASSOCIATION
Robyn Giragosian 2013 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND HEAD START ASSOCIATION
Toni Enright 2013 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND HEAD START ASSOCIATION
Debra Gass 2013 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND HEAD START ASSOCIATION
Gary Eckhart 2014 President $0 $0 VALLEY ARTS FOUNDATION INC
Ward Smyth 2014 Vice President $0 $0 VALLEY ARTS FOUNDATION INC
Michele A Eid 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 VALLEY ARTS FOUNDATION INC
Dotty Kyle 2014 Director $0 $0 VALLEY ARTS FOUNDATION INC
Nancy Mobley 2014 Director $0 $0 VALLEY ARTS FOUNDATION INC
Vee Lynch 2014 Director $0 $0 VALLEY ARTS FOUNDATION INC
Darryl Forrest 2014 Director $0 $0 VALLEY ARTS FOUNDATION 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.