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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Charles Thompson 2013 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT ANTIQUE AUTOMOBILE SOCIETY INC
Richard L Wheatley 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT ANTIQUE AUTOMOBILE SOCIETY INC
Gael Boardman 2013 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ANTIQUE AUTOMOBILE SOCIETY INC
Robert Chase 2013 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ANTIQUE AUTOMOBILE SOCIETY INC
Ellen Shapiro 2013 Board Member $0 $0 OPPORTUNITIES VENTURES INC
Shanna Ratner 2013 Vice President $0 $0 OPPORTUNITIES VENTURES INC
Ellen Kane 2013 Secretary $0 $0 OPPORTUNITIES VENTURES INC
Ellen Shapiro 2013 Board Member $0 $0 OPPORTUNITIES INCORPORATED
Shanna Ratner 2013 Vice President $0 $0 OPPORTUNITIES INCORPORATED
Ellen Kane 2013 Secretary $0 $0 OPPORTUNITIES INCORPORATED
Geoffrey Tabin Md 2013 Chairman $0 $0 HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
Randall Olson Md 2013 Board Member $0 $0 HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
Matthew Oliva Md 2013 Board Member $0 $0 HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
Adrienne Graves Phd 2013 Board Member $0 $0 HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
Meg Chute 2013 President $0 $0 PUTNEY OPEN DOOR FUND INC
John Canning 2013 President $0 $0 VERMONT SOFTWARE DEVELOPERSALLIANCE INC
Tom Jaros 2013 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT SOFTWARE DEVELOPERSALLIANCE INC
David Walsh 2013 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SOFTWARE DEVELOPERSALLIANCE INC
Chris Yager 2013 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SOFTWARE DEVELOPERSALLIANCE INC
Jeff Downs 2013 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SOFTWARE DEVELOPERSALLIANCE INC
Martin Thieret 2013 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SOFTWARE DEVELOPERSALLIANCE INC
Chris Johnson 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT SOFTWARE DEVELOPERSALLIANCE INC
Jeff Mcmahan 2013 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT SOFTWARE DEVELOPERSALLIANCE INC
Joanne F Forkey 2013 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SOFTWARE DEVELOPERSALLIANCE INC
Jon Bondy 2013 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SOFTWARE DEVELOPERSALLIANCE 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.