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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
John Vogel 2014 Vice Chair $0 $0 HOUSING VERMONT
Marc Landry 2014 Chair $0 $0 HOUSING VERMONT
Richard C Carroll 2014 Director $0 $0 GATEWAY FOUNDATION INC
John Meyer 2014 Vice President $0 $0 GATEWAY FOUNDATION INC
George Anthes 2014 Secretary $0 $0 GATEWAY FOUNDATION INC
John Mabie 2014 Director $0 $0 GATEWAY FOUNDATION INC
Marty Cohn 2014 President. $0 $0 GATEWAY FOUNDATION INC
G Gregory Worden 2014 Director $0 $0 GATEWAY FOUNDATION INC
William Vermouth 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 GATEWAY FOUNDATION INC
Steven Gordon 2014 Director $0 $0 GATEWAY FOUNDATION INC
Peg Racine 2014 Director $0 $0 BRANDON ARTISTS GUILD
Joan Rowe 2014 Director $0 $0 BRANDON ARTISTS GUILD
Dolores Furnari 2014 President $0 $0 BRANDON ARTISTS GUILD
David Fifield 2014 Director $0 $0 BRANDON ARTISTS GUILD
Susan Abell 2014 Trustee $0 $0 CARPENTER-CARSE LIBRARY
Jim Jarvis 2014 Trustee $0 $0 CARPENTER-CARSE LIBRARY
Brian Dunlop 2014 Trustee $0 $0 CARPENTER-CARSE LIBRARY
Marianna Holzer 2014 Trustee $0 $0 CARPENTER-CARSE LIBRARY
Robert Chapman 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 LOST NATION THEATER INC
Amy Willis 2013 Board Member $0 $0 LOST NATION THEATER INC
Kathleen Mcdonald 2013 Board Member $0 $0 LOST NATION THEATER INC
Carolyn Wesley 2013 Board Member $0 $0 LOST NATION THEATER INC
Julie Pierson 2014 Secretary $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Dorothy Slack 2014 At Large $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Charlie Magill 2014 Board Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY

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.