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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kevin Manahan 2014 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY INDUSTRIAL
Leon Berthiaume 2014 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY INDUSTRIAL
Bill O'Brien 2014 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY INDUSTRIAL
Maureen Brown 2014 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY INDUSTRIAL
Mervin Kaye 2014 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY INDUSTRIAL
Mike O'Brien 2014 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY INDUSTRIAL
Ow Bruley 2014 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY INDUSTRIAL
Patrick Calecas 2014 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY INDUSTRIAL
Rebecca Stebbins 2014 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY INDUSTRIAL
Steve Plouff 2014 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY INDUSTRIAL
Valentine Bonk 2014 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY INDUSTRIAL
William Allen 2014 President $0 $0 VERMONT CHILDRENS TRUST FOUNDATION
Sueann Van Buren 2014 Vice-President $0 $0 VERMONT CHILDRENS TRUST FOUNDATION
John Scheer 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT CHILDRENS TRUST FOUNDATION
Ann Hanson 2014 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Karl Lindholm 2014 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Nick Causton 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Laura Rumbough 2014 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Kyler Blodgett 2014 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Abigail Blum 2014 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Jerrod Rushton 2014 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Sarah Stewart 2014 Secretary $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Darcy Tarte 2014 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Philip Feidelseit 2014 President $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RACQUETSPORTS INC
Moss Kahler 2014 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RACQUETSPORTS 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.