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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Michael Geisler 2013 Trustee $0 $0 WORLD LEARNING INC
Sharon Lim 2013 Trustee $0 $0 WORLD LEARNING INC
Morris Rossabi 2013 Trustee $0 $0 WORLD LEARNING INC
Cindy Bond 2013 Secretary $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY FAMILY CENTER
Sally Olmsted 2013 Board Member $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY FAMILY CENTER
Eric Parker 2013 Board Member $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY FAMILY CENTER
Mary Corrigan 2013 Board Member $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY FAMILY CENTER
Stephen Walke 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY FAMILY CENTER
Rebecca Plummer 2013 Vice Preside $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY FAMILY CENTER
Adri Luhr 2013 President $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY FAMILY CENTER
Cedric Smith 2014 Deputy Gr Sec $0 $0 MASONIC CHARITIES OF VERMONT INC
Russell Slora 2014 Depty Gr Treas $0 $0 MASONIC CHARITIES OF VERMONT INC
Victor Stone 2014 Dept Gr Master $0 $0 MASONIC CHARITIES OF VERMONT INC
Robert Donnelly 2014 Grand Secretary $0 $0 MASONIC CHARITIES OF VERMONT INC
Theodore Corsones 2014 Grand Treasurer $0 $0 MASONIC CHARITIES OF VERMONT INC
George Deblon 2014 Grand Master $0 $0 MASONIC CHARITIES OF VERMONT INC
Michel Weppler 2014 Trustee $0 $0 BARBARA WILLIAMS SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Debra Burner 2014 Trustee $0 $0 BARBARA WILLIAMS SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Brad Bebedict 2014 Trustee $0 $0 BARBARA WILLIAMS SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Howard Clarke 2013 Board Member $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Rev Thomas Clark Ely 2013 Board Member $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Mary Grant 2014 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONTS NORTH COUNTRY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCORPORATED
Rosemary Lalime 2014 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONTS NORTH COUNTRY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCORPORATED
Tina Buehler 2014 Vice President $0 $0 WINDHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
Gina Cote 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WINDHAM COUNTY HUMANE 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.