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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Michael Lipson Jd Llm 2013 Board Member $0 $0 HOWARDCENTER INC
Karen O'Neill 2013 Board Member $0 $0 HOWARDCENTER INC
Michael Simoneau 2013 Board Member $0 $0 HOWARDCENTER INC
David Sobczak 2013 Board Member $0 $0 HOWARDCENTER INC
Connie Stabler 2013 Board Member $0 $0 HOWARDCENTER INC
Debra Stenner 2013 Board Member $0 $0 HOWARDCENTER INC
Karen Ward 2013 Board Member $0 $0 HOWARDCENTER INC
Daniel Calder 2013 Board Member $0 $0 HOWARDCENTER INC
Thomas J Donovan Jr 2013 Board Member $0 $0 HOWARDCENTER INC
E William Leckerling 2013 Board Member $0 $0 HOWARDCENTER INC
Alan Hodson 2014 Trustee $0 $0 BONNYVALE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER AT HEIFER HILL INC
Kathleen White 2014 Vp $0 $0 BONNYVALE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER AT HEIFER HILL INC
Morgan Ingalls 2014 Trustee $0 $0 BONNYVALE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER AT HEIFER HILL INC
Sarah Bergh 2014 Secretary $0 $0 BONNYVALE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER AT HEIFER HILL INC
Mike Auerbach 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 BONNYVALE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER AT HEIFER HILL INC
Julia Von Ranson 2014 President $0 $0 BONNYVALE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER AT HEIFER HILL INC
James Haug 2013 Director $0 $0 BURLINGTON COUNTRY CLUB CORP
John Mcsoley 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 BURLINGTON COUNTRY CLUB CORP
Robert Stevens 2013 President $0 $0 BURLINGTON COUNTRY CLUB CORP
Rhonda Colvard 2013 Director $0 $0 BURLINGTON COUNTRY CLUB CORP
Mark Boucher 2013 Director $0 $0 BURLINGTON COUNTRY CLUB CORP
Lance Llewellyn 2013 Director $0 $0 BURLINGTON COUNTRY CLUB CORP
Cort Jones 2013 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
John R Butterly Md 2013 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Larry Jensen 2013 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL 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.