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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kevin Ellis 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST
Don Hooper 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST
Curtis Koren 2014 President $0 $0 VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST
Crea Lintilhac 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST
Neale F Lunderville 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST
David Mindich 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST
Lauren Moye 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST
Carol Ode 2014 Vice-Preside $0 $0 VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST
Ina Smith 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST
Margaret Ritchie Cleaves 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY AMBULANCE INC
Bonnie Thurston 2014 Secretary $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY AMBULANCE INC
Joe Truss 2014 Director $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY AMBULANCE INC
Jeffrey B Cook 2013 President $0 $0 UNITED STATES BOWLING CONGRESS INC
Patrician Brown 2013 Vice President $0 $0 UNITED STATES BOWLING CONGRESS INC
Jean Patoine 2013 Sargent Of Arms $0 $0 UNITED STATES BOWLING CONGRESS INC
Tim Mcnamara 2013 Trustee $0 $0 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST
Dan Stannard 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST
Linda Nordman 2013 Trustee $0 $0 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST
Greg White 2014 President $0 $0 WOODSTOCK YOUTH HOCKEY INC
Kim Gaines 2014 Vice President $0 $0 WOODSTOCK YOUTH HOCKEY INC
Robert H Beach Jr 2014 Chair $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INCORPORATED
Sean Dunphy 2014 Vice-Chair $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INCORPORATED
Barney Bristow 2014 Secretary $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INCORPORATED
Douglas Griswold 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INCORPORATED
Francine Bazluke 2014 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INCORPORATED

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.