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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Cindy Robillard 2013 Officer At Large $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Nick Rivers 2013 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Wes Ward 2013 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
John Blackmore 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Brian Mulcahy 2013 President $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Patton Hyman 2013 Vice President $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Kimberly White 2013 Member At Large $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Ben Harris 2013 Trustee Emeritus $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Ernest Pomerleau 2013 President $0 $0 TAI CHI INSTITUTE INC
Howard Goldberg 2013 Director $0 $0 TAI CHI INSTITUTE INC
Emanuel Betz 2013 Secretary/Tr $0 $0 TAI CHI INSTITUTE INC
William Bugg 2013 President $0 $0 THETFORD LIBRARY FEDERATION INC
Phebe Mc Cosker 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 THETFORD LIBRARY FEDERATION INC
Arden Fendrich 2013 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD LIBRARY FEDERATION INC
Andrew Boyce 2013 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD LIBRARY FEDERATION INC
Jill Koppers 2013 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD LIBRARY FEDERATION INC
Kate Owen 2013 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD LIBRARY FEDERATION INC
Martha Bouchard 2013 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD LIBRARY FEDERATION INC
Steve Niederhauser 2013 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD LIBRARY FEDERATION INC
Marshall Van Norden 2013 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD LIBRARY FEDERATION INC
Mark Smith 2013 Trustee, Per $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Wayne Fearon 2013 Tiler $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Kyle Brown 2013 Esquire $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Bruce Fenn 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA ADULT DAY SERVICES
Jane Sbardella 2013 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA ADULT DAY SERVICES

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.