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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Cynthia Batten 2014 President $0 $0 VERMONT CONGREGATIONAL HOME INC
David Pruitt 2014 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT CONGREGATIONAL HOME INC
Bill Atkinson 2016 Officer $0 $0 VERMONT OUTDOOR GUIDE ASSOCIATION
Kathy Britton 2014 President $0 $0 AUTISM SOCIETY OF VERMONT
Cindy Cook 2014 Director $0 $0 AUTISM SOCIETY OF VERMONT
Donna Derenthal 2014 Director $0 $0 AUTISM SOCIETY OF VERMONT
Gerald Jones 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 AUTISM SOCIETY OF VERMONT
Beverly Donahue 2014 Director $0 $0 TERRACE COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION INC
Robert Murano 2014 Director $0 $0 TERRACE COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION INC
Gene Richards Iii 2014 Board Chairm $0 $0 FOR ONE ANOTHER FOUNDATION INC
Sherry Prehoda 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 FOR ONE ANOTHER FOUNDATION INC
Julie C Richards 2014 Secretary $0 $0 FOR ONE ANOTHER FOUNDATION INC
Ross Carlson 2014 Director $0 $0 FOR ONE ANOTHER FOUNDATION INC
Stephanie Sue Beckman 2014 Director $0 $0 FOR ONE ANOTHER FOUNDATION INC
Priscilla Bowin 2014 Director $0 $0 FOR ONE ANOTHER FOUNDATION INC
Elham Watson 2014 Director $0 $0 FOR ONE ANOTHER FOUNDATION INC
Liz Kenton 2013 President $0 $0 FOOD CONNECTS
Nathaniel Brooks 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 FOOD CONNECTS
Julie Potter 2013 Secretary $0 $0 FOOD CONNECTS
Abby Mnookin 2013 Director $0 $0 FOOD CONNECTS
Roberto Mugnani 2013 Director $0 $0 FOOD CONNECTS
Peter Gould 2013 Director $0 $0 INSIGHT PRODUCTIONS INC
Marcia Perry 2014 Vice Preside $0 $0 CHC2012 INC
Kathleen Mathis 2014 President $0 $0 BRANDON SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC
Jane Coolidge 2014 Vice President $0 $0 BRANDON SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER 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.