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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
David Shepard 2015 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC
Bob Malbon 2015 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC
Michael Robillard 2015 Trustee $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS
Bob Mohr 2015 Secretary $0 $0 PURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC
Randy Thompson 2015 President $0 $0 PURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC
Charlene Seward 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 PURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC
Barry Poppel 2015 Director $0 $0 PURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC
David Fisher 2015 Director $0 $0 PURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC
Doug Hinkle 2015 Director $0 $0 PURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC
Paulina Bendana 2015 Director $0 $0 PURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC
Barbara Tracy Carris 2015 Director $0 $0 PURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC
Jen Fleckenstein 2015 Vice President $0 $0 PURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC
Robin Hall 2015 Director $0 $0 PURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC
Paul Sofka 2015 Director $0 $0 PURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC
Rick Manganello 2015 Director $0 $0 PURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC
Stephanie Mccaull 2016 President $0 $0 NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Karen Harris 2016 Vice President $0 $0 NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Evan Pierce 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Anne Day 2016 Secretary $0 $0 NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Gina Des Cognets 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Penny Mcconnel 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Kathy Cadow Parsonnet 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Demo Sofronas 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Ginny Burley 2016 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT AFTERSCHOOL INC
Barbara Russ 2016 Vice-Chair $0 $0 VERMONT AFTERSCHOOL 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.