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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Margaret Burmeister 2014 Chairperson $0 $0 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
Carol Freeman 2014 Vice-Chairperson $0 $0 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
Scott Labun 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
Connie Philleo 2014 Secretary $0 $0 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
Harold Drury 2014 Board Member $0 $0 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
Dale Gephart 2014 Board Member $0 $0 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
Hope Hutchinson 2014 Board Member $0 $0 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
Monique Priestly 2014 Board Member $0 $0 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
William Campbell 2014 Board Member $0 $0 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
Eric Fritz 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WOODSTOCK AREA ROTARY CHARITABLE FUND INC
Jean Giddings 2014 President $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC
Alison Schantz 2014 Secretary $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC
Brian Cohen 2014 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC
Peter Gibbons 2014 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC
Linda Goss 2014 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC
Lynn Herzog 2014 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC
Gordon Jones 2014 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC
James Maxwell 2014 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC
David Snyder 2014 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC
Robin Sweetapple 2014 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC
Cindy Reid 2016 Vice President $0 $0 SOUTH END COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION
Rosemary Mackey 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CANCER RESEARCH ORGANIZATION INC
Dr Claire Verschraegen 2014 Executive Dir. $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CANCER RESEARCH ORGANIZATION INC
Serge P Mercure 2014 2Nd Vice Com $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Andre J Beaulieu 2014 Adjutant $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION

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.