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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
James Sanford 2014 Member $0 $0 MADSONIAN CORPORATION
Elizabeth Stevenson 2014 Member $0 $0 MADSONIAN CORPORATION
David Sellers 2014 President/Ch $0 $0 MADSONIAN CORPORATION
Michael Sarsynski Jr Cfp 2014 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Tammy Richards 2014 Board Secretary $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Tonia Wheeler 2014 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Patricia O'Donnell 2014 Past Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
David Dunn Esq 2014 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Daniel Normandeau 2014 Assistant Secretary $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Drew Pate Md 2014 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Michael Krupa 2014 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Joseph Pyle 2014 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Kenneth Becker 2014 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Christopher Turley 2014 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Rebecca Gill 2014 Director $0 $0 CAREPARTNERS ADULT DAY CENTER INC
Lakshman Achuthan 2014 Trustee $0 $0 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt 2014 Trustee $0 $0 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Lee Combrinck-Graham 2014 Trustee $0 $0 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Freddy Friedman 2014 Trustee $0 $0 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Dana Hokin 2014 Trustee $0 $0 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Franz Paasche 2014 Trustee $0 $0 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Peter Pereira 2014 Trustee $0 $0 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Marni Rosner 2014 Trustee $0 $0 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Ira T Wender 2014 Vice Chair $0 $0 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Tonia Wheeler 2014 Chair $0 $0 PUTNEY SCHOOL 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.