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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Peter Gedney 2014 Chairman $0 $0 ADVENT CHRISTIAN RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES INC
Scott Towle 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 ADVENT CHRISTIAN RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES INC
Jean Albee 2013 Vice President $0 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Ann Albee 2013 Secretary $0 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Sarah Messenger 2013 Director $0 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Sally Wadsworth 2013 Director $0 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Edward Garrett 2014 Commander $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Carrol Bird 2014 Chaplin $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Daniel Fogarty 2014 Service Officer $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Kevin Anderson 2013 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL INC
Sarah Vail 2013 Secretary $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL INC
David Sandelman 2013 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL INC
Pete Peck 2013 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL INC
Jim Rumrill 2013 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL INC
Robert Foster 2014 President $0 $0 COMPOSTING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INC
Robert Spencer 2014 Vice President $0 $0 COMPOSTING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INC
Brian Jerose 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 COMPOSTING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INC
Erica Spiegel 2014 Secretary $0 $0 COMPOSTING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INC
Robert Burke 2014 Chairman $0 $0 VT LIFE & HEALTH INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION
Ralph Arnold 2014 Director $0 $0 VT LIFE & HEALTH INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION
Robert Lynch 2014 Director $0 $0 VT LIFE & HEALTH INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION
John Beers 2014 Director $0 $0 VT LIFE & HEALTH INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION
John Flores 2014 Director $0 $0 VT LIFE & HEALTH INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION
Sean Quinn 2014 Director $0 $0 VT LIFE & HEALTH INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION
William Callnan 2014 Administrator $0 $0 VT LIFE & HEALTH INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION

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.