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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Steve Ertle 2014 Chair $0 $0 CAMP DOWNER INC
Harold Smith 2014 Vice Chair $0 $0 CAMP DOWNER INC
Cheryl Farnum Rendino 2014 Secretary $0 $0 CAMP DOWNER INC
Kati Furs 2014 Trustee $0 $0 CAMP DOWNER INC
Tari Scott 2014 Trustee $0 $0 CAMP DOWNER INC
Karen Seaman 2014 Trustee $0 $0 CAMP DOWNER INC
Lisa Patry 2014 Trustee $0 $0 CAMP DOWNER INC
Charity Colton 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 CAMP DOWNER INC
Wendy Sorrell 2014 Trustee $0 $0 CAMP DOWNER INC
Peter Degraff 2014 Secretary $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Walter Deverell Jr 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Susan Anderson-Ray 2014 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Bruce Baker 2014 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Pieter Broucke 2014 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Dan Brown 2014 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Sue Byers 2014 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Margaret Keith 2014 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Jorge Martin 2014 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Ashar Nelson 2014 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Kathryn Tilton 2014 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Cindy Seligmann 2014 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Harold Leitenberg Phd 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES LEITENBERG CENTER FOR EVIDENCE
Lee Rosen Phd 2014 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES LEITENBERG CENTER FOR EVIDENCE
Rex Forehand Phd 2014 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES LEITENBERG CENTER FOR EVIDENCE
Neal Britner 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 WILSON HOUSE OF EAST DORSET

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.