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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
John M Timken Jr 2014 Director $0 $0 LAKOTA CLUB
Corwin Sharp 2014 Treasurer/Secretary $0 $0 LAKOTA CLUB
John S Moore 2014 Vice President $0 $0 LAKOTA CLUB
Daniel T Morgan 2014 Director $0 $0 LAKOTA CLUB
William H Claflin Iv 2014 Director $0 $0 LAKOTA CLUB
James J Ford 2014 Director $0 $0 LAKOTA CLUB
Oliver A Manice 2014 Director $0 $0 LAKOTA CLUB
Peter Desmeules 2014 Director $0 $0 LAKOTA CLUB
Nancy Griffin 2013 Director $0 $0 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Fred Ober 2013 Director $0 $0 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Raymond Stroutsos 2013 Director $0 $0 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Bradford E Cook 2013 Chairman $0 $0 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Sally Garmon 2013 Vice-Chairman $0 $0 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Michael E Kennedy Esq 2013 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION
Edward J Tyler Iii Esq 2013 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION
Matthew F Valerio Esq 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION
Hon Thomas S Durkin 2013 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION
Daniel H Maguire Esq 2013 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION
David Clinton Carter Esq 2013 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION
Gary L Franklin Esq 2013 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION
Elizabeth Novotny Esq 2013 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION
Austin R Gray Esq 2013 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION
Andrew D Mikell Esq 2013 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION
Grace B Pazdan Esq 2013 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION
Bruce Martel 2014 2Nd Vice $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION

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.