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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Andrew Winter 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Kathryn Poston 2013 Secretary $0 $0 SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Angela Irvine 2014 Director And Secretary $0 $0 BELLAS MENTORING INC
Lea Davison 2014 Director And Vice President $0 $0 BELLAS MENTORING INC
Lisa Nye-Salladin 2014 Director $0 $0 BELLAS MENTORING INC
Richard Koenitzer 2014 Director $0 $0 BELLAS MENTORING INC
Stephen J Odefey 2014 Director $0 $0 BELLAS MENTORING INC
Daniel Sullivan 2014 Director $0 $0 BELLAS MENTORING INC
Thomas Lake 2014 Loyal Knight $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Denise Letourneau-Bowen 2014 Lecturing Kn $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Gisele Macharg 2013 Trustee $0 $0 ROYALTON MEMORIAL LIBARY ASSOC
Amy Escott 2014 Co-Vice Chair $0 $0 OUTRIGHT VERMONT
Christopher Janeway 2014 Co-Vice Chair $0 $0 OUTRIGHT VERMONT
Calvin Gilbert 2014 Board Member $0 $0 OUTRIGHT VERMONT
Deb Kalkstein-Lamb 2014 Board Member $0 $0 OUTRIGHT VERMONT
Linda Shiller 2014 Board Member $0 $0 OUTRIGHT VERMONT
Carrie Mathews 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS INC
John Hatton 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS INC
Peter Tucker 2014 Nat'L Director $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS INC
Lisa Meyer 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS INC
Tina Leblond 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS INC
Teresa Merelman 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS INC
Barbara Trousdale 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS INC
Suzanne Garvey 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS INC
Randall Raner 2014 President $0 $0 VERMONT AGENCY FOUNDATION LTD

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.