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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Steve Peery 2016 Director $0 $0 VT INFO TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING
Dave Creighton 2016 Board Member $0 $0 FAITH IN ACTION NORTHERNCOMMUNITIES PARTNERSHIP
Erma Perry 2016 Board Member $0 $0 FAITH IN ACTION NORTHERNCOMMUNITIES PARTNERSHIP
Gus Hagman 2016 Board Member $0 $0 FAITH IN ACTION NORTHERNCOMMUNITIES PARTNERSHIP
Jeff Thompson 2016 Board Member $0 $0 FAITH IN ACTION NORTHERNCOMMUNITIES PARTNERSHIP
Sandra Noyes 2016 Secretary $0 $0 FAITH IN ACTION NORTHERNCOMMUNITIES PARTNERSHIP
Miles Silk Jr 2016 Director $0 $0 BERLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
Perez Ehrich 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MAPLE STREET FOUNDATION INC
Anne Archer 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MAPLE STREET FOUNDATION INC
Elise Redmond 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MAPLE STREET FOUNDATION INC
Mary Blair 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 MAPLE STREET FOUNDATION INC
Matthew Samuelson 2016 Board Chair $0 $0 MAPLE STREET FOUNDATION INC
Jean E Miller 2016 Secretary $0 $0 MAPLE STREET FOUNDATION INC
Sandy Wilbur 2016 Vice President $0 $0 MAPLE STREET FOUNDATION INC
Dorothy Belair 2016 Vice President $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILLARY
Kathy Tracey 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILLARY
Nancy Buckley-Howard 2016 Secretary $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILLARY
Dorothy Belair 2016 Chaplain $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILLARY
Patricia Bullock 2016 Member At Large $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILLARY
Sandra Merz 2016 Member At Large $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILLARY
Laurence C Jost 2016 President $0 $0 ALPHA GAMMA RHO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
Walden J Rooney 2016 Vice President $0 $0 ALPHA GAMMA RHO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
Andrew Higley 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ALPHA GAMMA RHO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
Kevin T Rooney 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 ALPHA GAMMA RHO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
Leon Sabourin 2016 Vice-Pres. $0 $0 CHITTENDEN HOUSING CORPORATION

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.