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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Candace Page 2013 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Douglas Watson 2013 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Susan Bradford 2013 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Paul Lowerre 2013 Vice Chair $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Robert Cowles 2013 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Michael Powers 2013 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Deb Hallet 2013 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Ken Moriarty 2013 Chairman $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Katherine H Dickenson 2013 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
George Bryant 2013 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Kathleen Fisher 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Anthony Hoyt 2013 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Perez Erich 2013 Secretary $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Debra Trifari 2015 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION EDUCATION CORPORATION
Annemarie Daniels 2013 Imm Past Prsdt $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN VERMONT BOARD OF REALTORS INC
Tom Heney 2013 Director $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN VERMONT BOARD OF REALTORS INC
Karin Ericson 2013 Director $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN VERMONT BOARD OF REALTORS INC
Nancy Jenkins 2013 Director $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN VERMONT BOARD OF REALTORS INC
Robbi Handy Holmes 2013 Director $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN VERMONT BOARD OF REALTORS INC
Matthew Musgrave 2013 Director $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN VERMONT BOARD OF REALTORS INC
Carolyn Clapper 2013 Pres $0 $0 VERMONT COUNCIL OF THE BLIND INC
Michael Richman 2013 Vp $0 $0 VERMONT COUNCIL OF THE BLIND INC
Carol Richman 2013 Sec/Treas $0 $0 VERMONT COUNCIL OF THE BLIND INC
Carolyn Blitz 2016 Director $0 $0 STRATTON MOUNTAIN & VALLEY COMMUNITY BENEFIT FOUNDATION
Elaine Cella 2016 Director $0 $0 STRATTON MOUNTAIN & VALLEY COMMUNITY BENEFIT FOUNDATION

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.