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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Dick Chase 2014 Director $0 $0 RHYTHM OF THE REIN INC
Lorelei Wyman 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 RHYTHM OF THE REIN INC
Dianne Lashoones 2014 Program Dire $0 $0 RHYTHM OF THE REIN INC
Karen Grabber 2014 Director (Scheduler) $0 $0 NORTHSHIRE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Kurt Poddick 2014 Director (Coaching Director) $0 $0 NORTHSHIRE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Veronica Vandermark 2014 Director (Registrar) $0 $0 NORTHSHIRE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Jeff Noyes 2014 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHSHIRE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Doug Buggee 2014 Director (State Rep) $0 $0 NORTHSHIRE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Greg Cooper 2014 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Robert Isner 2014 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
George Macdonald 2014 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Bryn Oakleaf 2014 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Peter Pettit 2014 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Sharon Yergeau 2014 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Rick Watson 2014 President $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Guy Watson 2014 Vice President $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Sarah Reeves 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
David Bradbury 2014 Vice Chair $0 $0 CYNOSURE INC
Steve Hackett 2014 Director $0 $0 CYNOSURE INC
Ernest A Pomerleau 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 CYNOSURE INC
Rich Smith 2014 Director $0 $0 CYNOSURE INC
Glen A Wright 2014 Chairman $0 $0 CYNOSURE INC
Brad Aldrich 2014 Director $0 $0 CYNOSURE INC
Chris D'Elia 2014 Director $0 $0 CYNOSURE INC
Steve Terry 2014 Director $0 $0 CYNOSURE 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.