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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Mary Brown 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ICE CENTER OF WASHINGTON WEST INC
Charles Barber 2016 Director $0 $0 ICE CENTER OF WASHINGTON WEST INC
Bob Parette 2016 Vice-President $0 $0 ICE CENTER OF WASHINGTON WEST INC
Ronald Paquette 2016 President $0 $0 COCHRANS SKI CLUB INC
Jason Gifford 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 COCHRANS SKI CLUB INC
Karl Goetze 2016 Secretary $0 $0 COCHRANS SKI CLUB INC
Charles Cyr Od 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION INC
Garuna Hartnett 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION INC
Craig Vance 2016 President $0 $0 VERMONT ATV SPORTSMANS ASSOCIATION INC
Adam Lane 2016 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT ATV SPORTSMANS ASSOCIATION INC
Gary Nolan 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT ATV SPORTSMANS ASSOCIATION INC
Sue Kaufman 2016 President $0 $0 NORWICH WOMENS CLUB
Joanne Kent 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 NORWICH WOMENS CLUB
Eileen Shaevel 2016 Secretary $0 $0 NORWICH WOMENS CLUB
Holly Sateia 2016 Director $0 $0 NORWICH WOMENS CLUB
Carol Loveland 2016 Director $0 $0 NORWICH WOMENS CLUB
Jacqueline Allen 2016 Director $0 $0 NORWICH WOMENS CLUB
Deborah Hall 2016 Director $0 $0 NORWICH WOMENS CLUB
Sue Pitiger 2016 Director $0 $0 NORWICH WOMENS CLUB
Many Ann Holbrook 2016 Director $0 $0 NORWICH WOMENS CLUB
Martha Graber 2016 Director $0 $0 NORWICH WOMENS CLUB
William Mclean 2016 President $0 $0 BELVIDERE COMMUNITY CLUB INC
William Mclean 2016 Director $0 $0 BELVIDERE COMMUNITY CLUB INC
Bert Burleson 2016 Director $0 $0 BELVIDERE COMMUNITY CLUB INC
Susan Burleson 2016 Director $0 $0 BELVIDERE COMMUNITY CLUB 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.