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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Robert Young 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Richard Marron 2015 President $0 $0 THE MANOR INC
Angela Norder 2015 Vice Preside $0 $0 THE MANOR INC
David Yacovone 2015 Secretary $0 $0 THE MANOR INC
Heather Sargent 2015 Board Member $0 $0 THE MANOR INC
Jeff Coslett 2015 Board Member $0 $0 THE MANOR INC
Dr Ron Veenema 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Richard Ashton 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Gregory Mccormick 2015 Vice President $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Charles Bucknam 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Meredith Feltus 2015 President $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Harwant Sethi Sr 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Joseph Flynn 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Stephen Gray 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Elaine Smith 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
James Mcdonald 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Sara Simpson 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Marlin Devenger 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Patricia Emery 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
T Michael Flynn 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Daniel Heath 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Amy Mcgarry 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
David Aronoff 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Laura Ashton 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
James Gallagher 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE

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.