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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Morris Putnam 2014 Trustee $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Stephen Thompson 2014 Trustee $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Richard Sevigny 2013 Director $0 $0 DANVILLE RESCUE SQUAD INC
Barbara Byrne 2013 Director $0 $0 DANVILLE RESCUE SQUAD INC
Kathleen Corcoran 2013 Director $0 $0 DANVILLE RESCUE SQUAD INC
Dia Michaud 2013 Director $0 $0 DANVILLE RESCUE SQUAD INC
Debra Bach 2013 Secretary $0 $0 DANVILLE RESCUE SQUAD INC
Eric Bach 2013 President $0 $0 DANVILLE RESCUE SQUAD INC
Kelly Greaves 2013 Vice President $0 $0 DANVILLE RESCUE SQUAD INC
Johnathon Argeri 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 DANVILLE RESCUE SQUAD INC
Mrs Cheryl Hogan 2014 Director $0 $0 GLENS FALLS FOUNDATION
Dr Kathryn O'Keeffe 2014 Director $0 $0 GLENS FALLS FOUNDATION
Mrs Donna Perkett 2014 Chairman $0 $0 GLENS FALLS FOUNDATION
Ms Elizabeth Barton-Navitsky 2014 Director $0 $0 GLENS FALLS FOUNDATION
Mr Paul Mcphillips 2014 Director $0 $0 GLENS FALLS FOUNDATION
Dr Stacey Mandelbaum 2014 Director $0 $0 GLENS FALLS FOUNDATION
Mr Mark Behan 2014 Vice-Chairman $0 $0 GLENS FALLS FOUNDATION
Robert Bishop 2014 Secretary $0 $0 GILMAN HOUSING TRUST INC
Victoria Strong 2014 Director $0 $0 GILMAN HOUSING TRUST INC
Dennis Ladd 2014 President $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Larry Clark 2014 Vice President $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Stewart Read 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Dorothy Read 2014 Director $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Marguerite Janiszyn 2014 Director $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Arron Bridge 2014 Director $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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.