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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Patrick Wheeler 2015 Community Director $0 $0 THE CHILD CARE CENTER IN NORWICH INC
Melanie Michel 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 THE CHILD CARE CENTER IN NORWICH INC
Jane Lemasurier 2015 President $0 $0 THE CHILD CARE CENTER IN NORWICH INC
William Perron 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 OUR PLACE DROP-IN CENTER
Louise Luring 2015 Secretary $0 $0 OUR PLACE DROP-IN CENTER
Sarah Campbell 2015 Director $0 $0 OUR PLACE DROP-IN CENTER
Jerry Forkin 2015 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA ADULT DAY SERVICES
Patricia St Peter 2015 Vice President $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA ADULT DAY SERVICES
Bette Crawford 2015 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA ADULT DAY SERVICES
Amelia Wylie Lawrence Darrow 2015 Secretary $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA ADULT DAY SERVICES
Catherine Fournier 2015 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA ADULT DAY SERVICES
Charles Cherhoniak 2015 Vp $0 $0 THE HOUSING FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
Charles Grenier 2015 Board Member $0 $0 THE HOUSING FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
Richard Williams 2015 Sec./Treas. $0 $0 THE HOUSING FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
Richard A Mercy 2015 Commander $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Jean Chalifoux 2015 Sargent At A $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Bryant Reynolds 2015 1St Vice Com $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Dan Newton 2015 Service Offi $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Doug Billado Sons Of The Legion 2015 Commander $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Joseph Boone 2015 2Nd Vice Com $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Mark Carpenter Sons Of The Legion 2015 1St Vice Com $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Dustin Broe Sons Of The Legion 2015 Adjuntant $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Heather Belcher 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 THE BELLWETHER SCHOOL AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC
Jeremy Everitt 2015 Director $0 $0 THE BELLWETHER SCHOOL AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC
Mary Ganzenmuller 2015 President $0 $0 THE BELLWETHER SCHOOL AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC

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.