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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Michael Penrod 2013 Director $0 $0 CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
Janet Watton 2013 President $0 $0 CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
Louise Ferris Burt 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
Kristin Chandler 2013 Secretary $0 $0 CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
Daniel Jantos 2013 Secretary $0 $0 CHANGE THE WORLD KIDS INC
Robert Buckley Jr 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 CHANGE THE WORLD KIDS INC
Pieter Bohen 2013 Secretary $0 $0 SUSTAINABLE WOODSTOCK INC
Alison Clarkson 2013 Trustee $0 $0 SUSTAINABLE WOODSTOCK INC
Patsy Highberg 2013 Trustee $0 $0 SUSTAINABLE WOODSTOCK INC
Joby Thompson 2013 Trustee $0 $0 SUSTAINABLE WOODSTOCK INC
Al Alessi 2013 Trustee $0 $0 SUSTAINABLE WOODSTOCK INC
John King 2013 Trustee $0 $0 SUSTAINABLE WOODSTOCK INC
Mary Mccuaig 2013 Trustee $0 $0 SUSTAINABLE WOODSTOCK INC
Kent Underwood 2013 Trustee $0 $0 SUSTAINABLE WOODSTOCK INC
Ray Stanford 2013 Board Member $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Chip Lewis 2013 Board Member $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Nancy Russell 2013 Board Member $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
David Landry 2013 Board Member $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Aaron Macaskill 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Shellie Spaulding 2013 President $0 $0 NORTHGATE RESIDENTS OWBERSHIP CORPORATION
Brian Pine 2013 Vice-President $0 $0 NORTHGATE RESIDENTS OWBERSHIP CORPORATION
Carol Jaramillo 2013 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHGATE RESIDENTS OWBERSHIP CORPORATION
Tim Moran 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHGATE RESIDENTS OWBERSHIP CORPORATION
Kathy Miles 2013 Director $0 $0 NORTHGATE RESIDENTS OWBERSHIP CORPORATION
Don Lyons 2013 Director $0 $0 NORTHGATE RESIDENTS OWBERSHIP CORPORATION

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.