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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Beth O'Brien 2015 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
Betty Charron 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Rob Hirss 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
David Hutchinson 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
David Maccallum 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Jeremy Read 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Angela Poirier 2015 Member At La $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Jim Tomlinson 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Ken Gagne 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Jeff Moreau 2015 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Dan Thompson 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Anjanette Watson 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Stephen Page 2015 Director $0 $0 HOME SHARE NOW
Barbara Donovan 2015 Director $0 $0 HOME SHARE NOW
Joel Rhodes 2015 Director $0 $0 HOME SHARE NOW
Karen Duguay 2015 Secretary $0 $0 QUARRY HILL SCHOOL INC
Kirke Hart 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 QUARRY HILL SCHOOL INC
Amy Briggs 2015 Chair $0 $0 QUARRY HILL SCHOOL INC
Wayne R Ryan 2015 President,Treas,Dir $0 $0 ROCKINGHAM CHARITIES LIMITED
James O'Brien 2015 Director $0 $0 ROCKINGHAM CHARITIES LIMITED
Heather Boulger 2015 Vice President,Director $0 $0 ROCKINGHAM CHARITIES LIMITED
Jerry Bardwell 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES
Elizabeth Maiola 2015 Secretary $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES
Charles Kelsey 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES
Patrick Crotty 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES

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.