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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lisa Ventriss 2014 Director $0 $0 CYNOSURE INC
Edward C Metcalfe Jr 2014 President/Ex. Director $0 $0 VERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC
John North 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC
Marshal Case 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC
Ted Sisley 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC
Nick Muller 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 AURORA SCHOOL
Ilaria Broncoli Busdraghi 2014 Board Member $0 $0 AURORA SCHOOL
Paul Wyncoop 2014 President $0 $0 AURORA SCHOOL
John Cassarino 2014 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND CITY RESCUE MISSION INC
Bill Moore 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Richard Tinney 2014 Board Chair $0 $0 RUTLAND CITY RESCUE MISSION INC
Albert Gawet 2014 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND CITY RESCUE MISSION INC
John Welch 2014 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND CITY RESCUE MISSION INC
John Wing 2014 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND CITY RESCUE MISSION INC
Dan Ober 2014 Chief $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Matt Atkins 2014 First Asst. Chief $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Dudley Leavitt 2014 Second Asst. Chief $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Scott Bernoudy 2014 Financial Secretary $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Aaron Thomas 2014 Captain $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Alan Kamman 2014 Secretary $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Mary Harrison 2014 Public Relations Officer $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Elena Atwill 2014 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN ACADEMY FOR LIFE LONG LEARNING INC
Richard Haas 2014 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN ACADEMY FOR LIFE LONG LEARNING INC
Marilyn Hand 2014 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN ACADEMY FOR LIFE LONG LEARNING INC
Judy Livingston 2014 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN ACADEMY FOR LIFE LONG LEARNING 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.