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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Richard V Brodeur 2014 Finance Offi $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Owen Voss Sons Of The Legion 2014 2Nd Vice Com $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Donald Couture Sons Of The Legion 2014 Chaplain $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Todd Messier Sons Of The Legion 2014 Finance Offi $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Jim Foss Sons Of The Legion 2014 Adjutant $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Steve Harness Sons Of The Legion 2014 1St Vice Com $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Raymond Chauvin 2014 Director $0 $0 HOPE GROWS COMMUNITY FARM PROGRAM INC
Carolyn Chauvin 2014 Director $0 $0 HOPE GROWS COMMUNITY FARM PROGRAM INC
David Ford 2014 President $0 $0 HOPE GROWS COMMUNITY FARM PROGRAM INC
Michael Boudreau 2014 Secretary $0 $0 HOPE GROWS COMMUNITY FARM PROGRAM INC
Kenneth Bighton 2014 Director $0 $0 HOPE GROWS COMMUNITY FARM PROGRAM INC
Rich Carlson 2014 President $0 $0 RUTLAND WEST NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC
Caroline Schneider 2014 Secretary $0 $0 RUTLAND WEST NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC
Cindy Adams 2014 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND WEST NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC
James Leary 2014 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND WEST NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC
Gabe Gladding 2014 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND WEST NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC
Catherine Kalkstein 2014 Clerk $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF COURT DIVERSION PROGRAMS INC
Brian Keith 2014 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF COURT DIVERSION PROGRAMS INC
Leitha Cipriano 2014 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF COURT DIVERSION PROGRAMS INC
Rick Bjorn 2014 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF COURT DIVERSION PROGRAMS INC
Miche Chamberlain 2014 Member At Large $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF COURT DIVERSION PROGRAMS INC
Patrick Sheehan 2014 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF COURT DIVERSION PROGRAMS INC
Nina Curtiss 2014 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF COURT DIVERSION PROGRAMS INC
Rebecca Penberthy 2014 Vice Chair $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF COURT DIVERSION PROGRAMS INC
David Savidge 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF COURT DIVERSION PROGRAMS 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.