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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Robert Taisey 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
William Lytton 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Edna Baugh 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Randolph Brock 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
James Clemons 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Robert Fiske 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Sheppard Guryan 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Hon Peter Hall 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Mark Sciarrotta 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Whitney Debevoise 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Deborah Carpenter 2014 Vice Chair $0 $0 RIVER VALLEY CREDIT UNION
Russell Farrar 2014 Director $0 $0 RIVER VALLEY CREDIT UNION
James Bedard 2014 Director $0 $0 RIVER VALLEY CREDIT UNION
Larry Kraft 2014 Director $0 $0 RIVER VALLEY CREDIT UNION
Samantha Bovat 2014 Director $0 $0 RIVER VALLEY CREDIT UNION
Richard Carroll 2014 Director $0 $0 RIVER VALLEY CREDIT UNION
Michael Cooney 2014 Chairperson $0 $0 RIVER VALLEY CREDIT UNION
Meta Strick 2014 President $0 $0 VERMONT HAND CRAFTERS INC
Judith Glusto 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT HAND CRAFTERS INC
Barry Genzlinger 2014 Jury Chair $0 $0 VERMONT HAND CRAFTERS INC
Stacie Mincher 2014 Member At Large $0 $0 VERMONT HAND CRAFTERS INC
Masiti Mohamed 2014 Director $0 $0 LEGAL SERVICES LAW LINE OF VERMONT INC
James May 2014 Director $0 $0 LEGAL SERVICES LAW LINE OF VERMONT INC
John Shullenberger 2014 President $0 $0 LEGAL SERVICES LAW LINE OF VERMONT INC
Nanci Smith 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 LEGAL SERVICES LAW LINE OF VERMONT 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.