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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Ed Stahl 2013 Secretary $0 $0 STOWE AREA FOUNDATION ENDOWMENT INC
Marta Bernbaum 2013 Trustee $0 $0 RIVER GALLERY SCHOOL INC
Carolyn Dinicola Fawley 2013 Trustee $0 $0 RIVER GALLERY SCHOOL INC
Diana Lischer-Goodband 2013 Trustee $0 $0 RIVER GALLERY SCHOOL INC
Leslie Myette 2013 Trustee $0 $0 RIVER GALLERY SCHOOL INC
Margaret Shipman 2013 Trustee $0 $0 RIVER GALLERY SCHOOL INC
Petria Mitchell 2013 Vice Chair $0 $0 RIVER GALLERY SCHOOL INC
Laura Pepper 2013 Secretary $0 $0 RIVER GALLERY SCHOOL INC
Gerry Sears 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 RIVER GALLERY SCHOOL INC
John Sthilaire 2013 Chairman $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CREDIT UNION
Robert Griffin 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CREDIT UNION
Robert F Irwin 2013 Secretary $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CREDIT UNION
Ture Nelson 2013 Vice Chairman $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CREDIT UNION
Frank Lopez 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Eugene Whitney 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Robert Houle 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Henry Diemer Jr 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Andrew Wisniewski 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Ruth Houle 2013 Lecturing Knigh $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Timothy Johnson 2013 Exalted Ruler $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Michael Worden 2013 Leading Knight $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Albert Huffman 2013 Loyal Knight $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Marylou Razza 2016 Director $0 $0 VALLEY ARTS FOUNDATION INC
Barry Waldner 2013 President $0 $0 KINGDOM ACCESS TELEVISION
Michael Welch 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 KINGDOM ACCESS TELEVISION

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.