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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Susan Copeland 2013 Vice President $0 $0 LUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Debbie Ennis 2013 Secretary $0 $0 LUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Danny Kogurt 2013 Director $0 $0 LUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Linda Ley 2013 Director $0 $0 LUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Tina Mears 2013 Director $0 $0 LUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Keith Ploof 2013 Director $0 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY RESCUE INC
Lars Blackmore 2013 Secretary $0 $0 NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Erin Tunnicliffe 2013 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Karen Harris 2013 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Tricia Seigne 2013 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Abby Armstrong 2013 President $0 $0 WHITE RIVER PARTNERSHIP INC
Susan Shea 2013 Vice President $0 $0 WHITE RIVER PARTNERSHIP INC
Dave Phillips 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 WHITE RIVER PARTNERSHIP INC
Walter Hastings 2013 Trustee $0 $0 WHITE RIVER PARTNERSHIP INC
Tom Honigford 2013 Trustee $0 $0 WHITE RIVER PARTNERSHIP INC
Ted Johnson 2013 Development/ $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Julie Pierson 2013 Secretary $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Jeneva Burroughs 2013 Family Selec $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Dorothy Slack 2013 At Large $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Stewart Pierson 2013 Site Select $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Charlie Magill 2013 Board Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Jane Stickney 2013 Family Suppo $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Dick Shasteen 2013 Construction $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Gail Vogt 2013 Board Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Scott Mccrae 2013 Board Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY

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.