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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lou Borie 2015 Trustee $0 $0 RICHMOND LAND TRUST
Gary Bressor 2015 Trustee $0 $0 RICHMOND LAND TRUST
Brad Elliot 2015 Trustee $0 $0 RICHMOND LAND TRUST
Jim Feinson 2015 Trustee $0 $0 RICHMOND LAND TRUST
Jeremy Hoff 2015 Trustee $0 $0 RICHMOND LAND TRUST
Dan Martin 2015 Trustee $0 $0 RICHMOND LAND TRUST
Judy Mcvickar 2015 Trustee $0 $0 RICHMOND LAND TRUST
Carol Mcquillen 2015 President $0 $0 COMMON ROOTS INC
Eric Ayers 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 COMMON ROOTS INC
Ingrid Burrows 2015 Board Member $0 $0 GARLAND SCHOOL INC
Ines Mcgillion 2015 Board President $0 $0 GARLAND SCHOOL INC
Ian Levy 2015 Board Member $0 $0 GARLAND SCHOOL INC
Sharon Gralnick 2015 Board Member $0 $0 GARLAND SCHOOL INC
Nate Hill 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 HARTFORD COMMUNITY RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER
Kitty O'Hara 2015 Member $0 $0 HARTFORD COMMUNITY RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER
David Wolk 2015 President $0 $0 VSC FOUNDATION INC
Stephen Wisloski 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VSC FOUNDATION INC
Jeb Spaulding 2015 Director $0 $0 VSC FOUNDATION INC
Joyce Judy 2015 Director $0 $0 VSC FOUNDATION INC
Elaine Collins 2015 Director $0 $0 VSC FOUNDATION INC
William Reedy 2015 Secretary $0 $0 VSC FOUNDATION INC
Frances Busa 2015 President $0 $0 READSBORO PRESCHOOL INCORPORATED
Abbie Corse 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 READSBORO PRESCHOOL INCORPORATED
Marianne Kotch 2015 Secretary $0 $0 ALDRICH PUBLIC LIBRARY
Robert Spring 2015 Vice President $0 $0 ALDRICH PUBLIC LIBRARY

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.