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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Karen Coppin 2014 Director $0 $0 MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
Chris Rutken 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
Alex Ramsvig 2014 Director $0 $0 MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
Nancy Tschorn 2014 Director $0 $0 MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
Dave Quesnel 2014 Clerk $0 $0 MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
Thomas Skinner 2014 Director $0 $0 HIGH FIVE ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC
John Martin 2014 President $0 $0 HIGH FIVE ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC
Thomas Oxholm 2014 Director $0 $0 HIGH FIVE ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC
Nicki Hall 2014 Director $0 $0 HIGH FIVE ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC
Barbara Harris 2014 Director $0 $0 HIGH FIVE ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC
Daniel Davis 2014 Director $0 $0 HIGH FIVE ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC
Nancy Engels 2014 President $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
Paul Denton 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
Jessica Applegate 2014 Director $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
Tom Wagner 2014 Director $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
Jillian Kilborn 2014 Director $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
Alan Robertson 2014 Director $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
Charles Woods 2014 Director $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
Carol Moore 2014 Exec Director $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
Nancy Engels 2013 President $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
Jessica Applegate 2013 Director $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
Bruce Berryman 2013 Director $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
Patricia Cooper 2013 Director $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
Jillian Kilborn 2013 Director $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
Anthony Larrara 2013 Director $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER

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.