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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kimberly Butler 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC
Ken Graham 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC
Thomas Rolfs 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC
Warren Smith - Renny 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC
Alexander Williams 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC
Charles Christianson 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC
Jonathan Katz 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC
Britt Moulton 2014 President $0 $0 CHARLESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Andrea Moulton 2014 Secretary $0 $0 CHARLESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Daniel A Whipple 2014 Vice President $0 $0 CHARLESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Blair Moulton 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 CHARLESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Donald Funk 2014 Director $0 $0 CHARLESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Paul Reddon 2014 Director $0 $0 CHARLESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Mary Griffin 2014 President $0 $0 HANDS FOR HOPE FOUNDATION INC
Deborah Baker 2014 President $0 $0 HOOVED ANIMAL SANCTUARY
Bonnie Pierpont 2014 Officer $0 $0 HOOVED ANIMAL SANCTUARY
Sara Gordon 2014 Officer $0 $0 HOOVED ANIMAL SANCTUARY
Jane Porter 2014 Officer $0 $0 HOOVED ANIMAL SANCTUARY
Alex Halpern 2014 Director $0 $0 GREATER PINE STREET BUSINESS ASSOCIATION INC
Bren Alvarez 2014 Director $0 $0 GREATER PINE STREET BUSINESS ASSOCIATION INC
Henry Duffy 2013 President $0 $0 HISTORIC WINDSOR INC
Melissa Barker 2016 Lecturing Knigh $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Diana Hayes 2013 Secretary $0 $0 HISTORIC WINDSOR INC
Michael Newbold 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 HISTORIC WINDSOR INC
Dana Ennis 2013 Director $0 $0 HISTORIC WINDSOR 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.