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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lisa Nye-Salladin 2015 Director $0 $0 BELLAS MENTORING INC
Stephen J Odefey 2015 Director $0 $0 BELLAS MENTORING INC
Daniel Sullivan 2015 Director $0 $0 BELLAS MENTORING INC
Carrie Adii 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 CAMBRIDGE AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM
Karen Denniston 2015 President $0 $0 CAMBRIDGE AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM
Jen Hadley 2015 Secretary $0 $0 CAMBRIDGE AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM
Jean Meloche 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 OUR LADY OF PROVIDENCE VT INC
Sister Helen Dubeau 2015 Director $0 $0 OUR LADY OF PROVIDENCE VT INC
Dr Robert Perrin 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 OUR LADY OF PROVIDENCE VT INC
Joseph P Blanchette 2015 Chair $0 $0 OUR LADY OF PROVIDENCE VT INC
Bill Geiger 2015 Director $0 $0 OUR LADY OF PROVIDENCE VT INC
Monsignor Richard Lavalley 2015 Director $0 $0 OUR LADY OF PROVIDENCE VT INC
Janet Miller Haines 2014 Board Chair $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Terry Samwick 2014 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Harry Dorman 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Jim Adler 2014 Member $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Cynthia Barrette 2014 Member $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Jamie Horton 2014 Member $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Sven Karlen 2014 Member $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Amy Redpath 2014 Member $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Matt Swett 2014 Member $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Harry Tether 2014 Member $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Julie Mckenna 2014 President $0 $0 QUECHEE ALPINE SKI CLUB INC
Matthew Cunningham 2014 Vice President $0 $0 QUECHEE ALPINE SKI CLUB INC
Kimberly Guerster 2014 Secretary $0 $0 QUECHEE ALPINE SKI CLUB 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.