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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Chris Baker 2014 Trustee $0 $0 GREENWOOD SCHOOL INC
Sandra Moneypenny 2014 Trustee $0 $0 GREENWOOD SCHOOL INC
Haruko Shino 2014 Trustee $0 $0 GREENWOOD SCHOOL INC
Scott Breig 2014 Trustee $0 $0 GREENWOOD SCHOOL INC
Michael Metz 2014 Director $0 $0 GENERATOR INC
Ken Howell 2014 Director $0 $0 GENERATOR INC
Dan Harvey 2014 President $0 $0 GENERATOR INC
Doug Webster 2014 Director $0 $0 GENERATOR INC
Doreen Kraft 2014 Director $0 $0 GENERATOR INC
John Cohn 2014 Director $0 $0 GENERATOR INC
Steve Conant 2014 Director $0 $0 GENERATOR INC
Owen Milne 2014 Director $0 $0 GENERATOR INC
Michael Harris 2015 President $0 $0 LYNDON RESCUE INC
Jan Clausing 2015 Secretary $0 $0 LYNDON RESCUE INC
John Kascenska 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 LYNDON RESCUE INC
Bruce James 2015 Member $0 $0 LYNDON RESCUE INC
Bruce Berryman 2015 Member $0 $0 LYNDON RESCUE INC
Marte Rhodes 2015 Director $0 $0 NEWPORT COUNTRY CLUB INC
Thomas Howell 2015 President $0 $0 NEWPORT COUNTRY CLUB INC
Michael Murphy 2015 Director $0 $0 NEWPORT COUNTRY CLUB INC
Kevin Kincaid 2015 Director $0 $0 NEWPORT COUNTRY CLUB INC
Larry Mandell 2014 Chairman $0 $0 PUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE INC
Sheila Reed 2014 Secretary $0 $0 PUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE INC
Carlen Finn 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 PUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE INC
Steve Gold 2014 Vice Chair $0 $0 PUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE 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.