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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Barb Gustafson 2015 Director $0 $0 CASTLETON COMMUNITY SENIORS INC
Gail Regan 2015 Director $0 $0 CASTLETON COMMUNITY SENIORS INC
Bob Day 2015 President $0 $0 CASTLETON COMMUNITY SENIORS INC
Holly Hitchcock 2015 Director $0 $0 CASTLETON COMMUNITY SENIORS INC
Sharon Gowan 2015 Director $0 $0 CASTLETON COMMUNITY SENIORS INC
Cecelia Hunt 2015 Director $0 $0 CASTLETON COMMUNITY SENIORS INC
Jeff Larson 2015 Director $0 $0 CASTLETON COMMUNITY SENIORS INC
Toni Lobdell 2015 Secretary $0 $0 CASTLETON COMMUNITY SENIORS INC
Debbie Rosmus 2015 Director $0 $0 CASTLETON COMMUNITY SENIORS INC
Rosemaria Doran 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 CASTLETON COMMUNITY SENIORS INC
Hugh B Spafford 2015 Director $0 $0 ITALIAN AID SOCIETY INC
Scott Audet 2016 Asst. Manager $0 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY FIELD DAYS INC
Roy Lewis 2015 Director $0 $0 ITALIAN AID SOCIETY INC
Alain Therrien 2015 Director $0 $0 ITALIAN AID SOCIETY INC
Richard Wormwood 2015 Director $0 $0 ITALIAN AID SOCIETY INC
Cairn Cross 2014 Secretary/Tr $0 $0 VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC
Lucy Leriche 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC
Chuck Ross 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC
Robin Scheu 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC
Zachariah L Fike 2015 Founder/Ceo $0 $0 PURPLE HEARTS REUNITED INC
Janice C Murphy 2015 Vice Preside $0 $0 PURPLE HEARTS REUNITED INC
Joyce L Fike 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 PURPLE HEARTS REUNITED INC
Jessica F Fike 2015 Secretary $0 $0 PURPLE HEARTS REUNITED INC
Jim E Hand 2014 Director $0 $0 NORTHSHIRE CIVIC CENTER INC
Paul Tegan 2014 Director $0 $0 NORTHSHIRE CIVIC CENTER 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.