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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Patti Putnam 2014 Vice President $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Jason Thom 2014 Member At Large $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Bob Kendall 2014 Member At Large $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Sam Coleman 2014 Member At Large $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
John Tansey 2014 Member At Large $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Joseph A Gaida 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC
Jeffrey J Mcmahan 2014 Secretary $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC
Patrick Brown 2014 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC
Edward Castle 2014 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC
James Cohen 2014 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC
Robert Dipalma 2014 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC
Kevin Gallagher 2014 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC
Brooke Gillman 2014 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC
Michell Langlais 2014 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC
Susan Leonard 2014 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC
Amit Lodha 2014 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC
Pamela Mackenzie 2014 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC
Owen Milne 2014 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC
Kathleen Hege 2014 Chair $0 $0 RESCUE INC
Win Clark 2014 Vice Chair $0 $0 RESCUE INC
Harold Newell 2014 Secretary $0 $0 RESCUE INC
Greg Gadoswki Md 2014 Trustee $0 $0 RESCUE INC
John Bookwalter 2014 Trustee $0 $0 RESCUE INC
Debra Chapman 2014 Trustee $0 $0 RESCUE INC
John Leader 2014 Trustee $0 $0 RESCUE 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.