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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Joann Brewer 2013 Director $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC
Kristen Ginsburg 2013 Director $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC
John Duclos 2013 Director $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC
Algy Layden 2013 Vice President $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC
Kate Tilton 2013 Director $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC
Elizabeth Maher 2013 Director $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC
Robert Poppenga 2013 Director $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC
Guil Kitchel 2013 Trustee $0 $0 POPE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Shirley Richardson 2013 Board Chair $0 $0 POPE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Henrietta Splain 2013 Trustee $0 $0 POPE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Diane Chadderdon 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 POPE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Woody Starkweather 2013 Trustee $0 $0 POPE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Cheryl Linsley 2013 Trustee $0 $0 POPE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Steve Jarvis 2013 Chairman $0 $0 NORTHEAST ADDISON TELEVISION INCORPORATED
Gary Urich 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHEAST ADDISON TELEVISION INCORPORATED
Mary Arbuckle 2013 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHEAST ADDISON TELEVISION INCORPORATED
Alice Leeds 2013 Vice Chair $0 $0 NORTHEAST ADDISON TELEVISION INCORPORATED
Neal Fox 2013 Director $0 $0 WHITE RIVER VALLEY AMBULANCE INC
Larry Straus 2013 Director $0 $0 WHITE RIVER VALLEY AMBULANCE INC
Gary Poirier 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER ELKS OF THE USA
Joanne Belair 2015 Director $0 $0 LUNENBURG GILMAN AND EAST CONCORD SENIOR CITIZENS INC
Emo Chynoweth 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 WOODSTOCK YOUTH HOCKEY INC
Greg White 2013 President $0 $0 WOODSTOCK YOUTH HOCKEY INC
Karen Minarik 2013 Secretary $0 $0 WOODSTOCK YOUTH HOCKEY INC
Jay Smith 2013 Board Memeber $0 $0 WOODSTOCK YOUTH HOCKEY 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.