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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Betsy Hampton 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 POPE MEMORIAL FRONTIER ANIMAL SHELTER INC
Nancy Ferrucci 2014 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE WARDSBORO LIBRARY INC
Sally Wadsworth 2014 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE WARDSBORO LIBRARY INC
Jane Miller 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WRITING COLLABORATIVE INC
Karen Kurzman 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WRITING COLLABORATIVE INC
Eloise Ginty 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WRITING COLLABORATIVE INC
Joanna Hawkins 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WRITING COLLABORATIVE INC
Diane Leddy 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WRITING COLLABORATIVE INC
Edward A Cutter Iii 2014 Members Committee $0 $0 TERRAFIRMA RISK RETENTION GROUP LLC
William L Gebo 2014 Members Committee $0 $0 TERRAFIRMA RISK RETENTION GROUP LLC
William G Hauserman 2014 Members Committee $0 $0 TERRAFIRMA RISK RETENTION GROUP LLC
Kevin C Hicks 2014 Members Committee $0 $0 TERRAFIRMA RISK RETENTION GROUP LLC
Barbara L Hopkins 2014 Members Committee $0 $0 TERRAFIRMA RISK RETENTION GROUP LLC
Sopac M Mulholland 2014 Members Committee $0 $0 TERRAFIRMA RISK RETENTION GROUP LLC
Rand Wentworth See Sch O 2014 President - Arms $0 $0 TERRAFIRMA RISK RETENTION GROUP LLC
Marilyn Ayres See Sch O 2014 Treasurer - Arms $0 $0 TERRAFIRMA RISK RETENTION GROUP LLC
Leslie Ratley-Beach See Sch O 2014 Vice President & Secretary - Arms $0 $0 TERRAFIRMA RISK RETENTION GROUP LLC
Kathleen Govotski 2015 President $0 $0 GREAT FALLS REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Matt Guyette 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 SOUTH BURLINGTON SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT INC
Martin Lalonde 2014 Director $0 $0 SOUTH BURLINGTON SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT INC
Tom Dipietro 2014 Secretary $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN WATER ENVIRONMENT ASSOCIATION
Lisa Goodell 2014 Vlct Adm Lia $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN WATER ENVIRONMENT ASSOCIATION
Steve Crosby 2014 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN WATER ENVIRONMENT ASSOCIATION
Chris Robinson 2014 President $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN WATER ENVIRONMENT ASSOCIATION
Rick Kenney 2014 1St Vice Pre $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN WATER ENVIRONMENT 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.