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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Amy Brooks Thornton 2013 Director $0 $0 FOCUS ON FILM
Jay Bothwell 2013 Director $0 $0 FOCUS ON FILM
Kevin Ellis 2013 Director $0 $0 FOCUS ON FILM
Carolyn Derosia 2013 Vice President $0 $0 WEST BARNET SENIOR MEAL SITE
Sally Cook 2013 Secretary $0 $0 WEST BARNET SENIOR MEAL SITE
Donald Dickinson 2013 Member $0 $0 WEST BARNET SENIOR MEAL SITE
Carol Fournier 2013 Member $0 $0 WEST BARNET SENIOR MEAL SITE
Sr Gail Worcelo 2013 President $0 $0 PASSIONIST FOUNDATION OF THE STATE OF VERMONT INC
Sr Valda Dickinson 2013 Vice President $0 $0 PASSIONIST FOUNDATION OF THE STATE OF VERMONT INC
Sr Bernadette Bostwick 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 PASSIONIST FOUNDATION OF THE STATE OF VERMONT INC
Fr Steve Dunn 2013 Secretary $0 $0 PASSIONIST FOUNDATION OF THE STATE OF VERMONT INC
Scott Louiselle 2013 Vice President $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FOODSHELF
Philip Gosinski 2013 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FOODSHELF
Karen A Bartlett 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FOODSHELF
Marie Gosinski 2013 Secretary $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FOODSHELF
Michael Dick 2013 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FOODSHELF
Therese Ballou 2013 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FOODSHELF
Donna Trombley 2013 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FOODSHELF
Darren Childs 2013 President $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FOODSHELF
Nancy Brower 2013 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FOODSHELF
Lyn Huntoon 2013 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FOODSHELF
Donna Simons 2013 Secretary $0 $0 STROLLING OF THE HEIFERS
Jack Davidson 2013 President/Treas $0 $0 STROLLING OF THE HEIFERS
Steven Sayer 2013 Director $0 $0 STROLLING OF THE HEIFERS
Greg Worden 2013 Director $0 $0 STROLLING OF THE HEIFERS

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.