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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Rick Trehan 2014 Director $0 $0 HARTFORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
David Clark 2014 Director $0 $0 HARTFORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Aaron Brown 2014 Director $0 $0 HARTFORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Trisha Kent 2014 Director $0 $0 HARTFORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Steven Burnett 2014 Director $0 $0 HARTFORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Nicolaas Bekker 2014 Director $0 $0 HARTFORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Cheryl Lindberg 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 HARTFORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
David Landry 2014 Chair $0 $0 HARTFORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Tad Nunez 2014 Vice Chair $0 $0 HARTFORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Barton S Fried 2014 President/Director $0 $0 ANTIQUE TELESCOPE SOCIETY INC
Matt Considine 2014 Vice President/Director $0 $0 ANTIQUE TELESCOPE SOCIETY INC
John D Koester 2014 Treasurer/Director $0 $0 ANTIQUE TELESCOPE SOCIETY INC
Robert Hambleton 2014 Journal Editor/Director $0 $0 ANTIQUE TELESCOPE SOCIETY INC
Valerie Shemeth 2014 President $0 $0 GALLOP TO SUCESS
Christine Falango 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 THE LITTLE SCHOOL INC
Honor Hubbard 2013 Vice President $0 $0 THE LITTLE SCHOOL INC
Eryn Badger 2013 President $0 $0 THE LITTLE SCHOOL INC
Alyson Blodgett 2013 Secretary $0 $0 THE LITTLE SCHOOL INC
Tina Hartell 2013 Director $0 $0 THE LITTLE SCHOOL INC
Gale Kuhlberg 2013 Director $0 $0 THE LITTLE SCHOOL INC
Beda Lyon 2013 Director $0 $0 THE LITTLE SCHOOL INC
Scott Perry 2014 Chairman $0 $0 MONTGOMERY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
William Mcgroarty 2014 Vice Chairman $0 $0 MONTGOMERY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Marijke Dollois 2014 Secretary $0 $0 MONTGOMERY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Jo Anne Bennett 2014 Director $0 $0 MONTGOMERY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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.