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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Karin Ericson 2014 Director $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN VERMONT BOARD OF REALTORS INC
Kristine Stell 2014 Imm Past Prsdt $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN VERMONT BOARD OF REALTORS INC
Matthew Musgrave 2014 Director $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN VERMONT BOARD OF REALTORS INC
Mary Palmer 2014 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN VERMONT BOARD OF REALTORS INC
Susan Kaminski 2014 Director $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN VERMONT BOARD OF REALTORS INC
Chad Binkerd 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 HUNGER MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Makenzie Godfrey 2013 Co-Secretary $0 $0 HUNGER MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Meeghan Jones 2013 Director $0 $0 HUNGER MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Mia Moore 2013 Director $0 $0 HUNGER MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Priscilla Alexander 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Susan Paris Borden 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Suzanne Brundage 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Barbara Ushkow Deane 2013 Vice Chairman $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Michael Hecht 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
John J Kenney 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Bobbie Knable 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Alan Kornberg 2013 Chairman $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Daniel B Rowland 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Charlene Solow Schwartz 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
James Simon 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Sara Steines 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Penelope Perkins Wilson 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Gerard Jones 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
George Mckann 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Kevin Mendik 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL 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.