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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Margaret Cyr 2013 President $0 $0 BRISTOL RECREATION CLUB
Troy Paradee 2013 Vice-President $0 $0 BRISTOL RECREATION CLUB
Kris Perlee 2013 Secretary $0 $0 BRISTOL RECREATION CLUB
Elizabeth Farr 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 BRISTOL RECREATION CLUB
Ken Weston 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BRISTOL RECREATION CLUB
Joel Bouvier 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BRISTOL RECREATION CLUB
Ernest Senecal 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BRISTOL RECREATION CLUB
Scott Benjamin 2013 President $0 $0 KIDS REHABGYM INC
Mark Perkell 2013 Vice President $0 $0 KIDS REHABGYM INC
Jan Shank 2013 Secretary $0 $0 KIDS REHABGYM INC
Rick Kneu 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 KIDS REHABGYM INC
Sharon Gutwin 2013 Director $0 $0 KIDS REHABGYM INC
Elizabeth Glinka 2013 President $0 $0 VALE HOSPICE INTERNATIONAL INC
Daniel Smith 2013 Director $0 $0 VSC FOUNDATION INC
Patr Rockwell 2013 Vice President $0 $0 VALE HOSPICE INTERNATIONAL INC
Andrew Nicolaysen 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 VALE HOSPICE INTERNATIONAL INC
Robin Macarthur 2013 President $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Erika Korb 2013 Vice President $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Johanna Staveley 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Jesse Einermann 2013 Secretary $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Sarah Lavigne 2013 Director $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Janis Severance 2013 Director $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Kirsten Edelglass 2013 Director $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Marian Lyndggard 2013 Director $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Gemma Ollis 2013 Director $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL 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.