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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Don Peddie 2013 Board Member $0 $0 ELDERLY SERVICES INC
John Martell 2013 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST
Lynda Hutchins 2013 Secretary $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST
Connie Leach 2013 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST
David Andrews 2013 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST
Julie Heffernan 2013 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST
Peter Saulters 2013 1St Vice $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Jeff Hall 2013 2Nd Vice $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Allan Heath 2013 Director $0 $0 GRANITE CITY HOUSING INC
Guy Isabelle 2013 Chairman $0 $0 GRANITE CITY HOUSING INC
Steve Martin 2013 Director $0 $0 GRANITE CITY HOUSING INC
Maureen Morton 2013 Secretary $0 $0 GRANITE CITY HOUSING INC
Sally Ann Young 2013 Vice President $0 $0 GROTON VILLAGE HOUSING INC
Merten Bangemann-Johnson 2013 President $0 $0 GROTON VILLAGE HOUSING INC
James Flynn 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 GROTON VILLAGE HOUSING INC
Susan H Burdick 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 AUXILIARY OF PORTER MEDICAL CENTER,INC
Janice Gould 2013 Secretary $0 $0 AUXILIARY OF PORTER MEDICAL CENTER,INC
Deb Fortier 2013 Director $0 $0 AUXILIARY OF PORTER MEDICAL CENTER,INC
Bryan Phelps 2013 Director $0 $0 AUXILIARY OF PORTER MEDICAL CENTER,INC
Jackie Beacham 2013 Director $0 $0 AUXILIARY OF PORTER MEDICAL CENTER,INC
Benj Deppman 2013 Director $0 $0 AUXILIARY OF PORTER MEDICAL CENTER,INC
Judy Morrison 2013 Director $0 $0 AUXILIARY OF PORTER MEDICAL CENTER,INC
Richard Romagnoli 2013 Dir/President $0 $0 POTOMAC THEATRE PROJECT INC
Susan Morgan 2013 Board Member $0 $0 WOODSTOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Carol Cunningham 2013 Board Member $0 $0 WOODSTOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 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.