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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Peter Sanders 2014 President $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Stanley Weiss 2014 Secretary $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Ernest Sanders 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Charles Kettles 2014 Vice Chairma $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Alice Bennett 2014 Secretary $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Cindy Arsenault 2014 Representati $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Nora-Ellen Spaulding 2014 Chairman $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Neal Warren 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Neil Groberg 2013 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Katie Gibson 2013 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Paul Espina 2013 Co-Chair $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Albert Legaye 2013 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Karen Lapan 2013 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Kerry Hill 2013 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Kiele Mauricio 2013 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Grace Parrott 2014 Member $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Charles Kettles 2014 Member $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Sarah Crum 2013 Board Member $0 $0 BRISTOL FAMILY CENTER
Shawna Sherwin 2013 President $0 $0 BRISTOL FAMILY CENTER
Jennifer Oxford 2013 Board Member $0 $0 BRISTOL FAMILY CENTER
Adrian Bannister 2013 Board Member $0 $0 BRISTOL FAMILY CENTER
Leslie Olin 2014 Director $0 $0 POPE MEMORIAL FRONTIER ANIMAL SHELTER INC
Sherry Girard 2014 President $0 $0 POPE MEMORIAL FRONTIER ANIMAL SHELTER INC
Sharon Ryan 2014 Vice Preside $0 $0 POPE MEMORIAL FRONTIER ANIMAL SHELTER INC
Joanne Fedele 2014 Secretary $0 $0 POPE MEMORIAL FRONTIER ANIMAL SHELTER 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.