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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Douglas Gest 2013 Director $0 $0 HISTORIC WINDSOR INC
Jim Barrett 2013 Trustee $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Cinny Bensen 2013 Chair $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Jennifer Brown 2013 Trustee $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Lisa Cashdan 2013 Trustee $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Margaret Cheney 2013 Trustee $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Justine Fahey 2013 Trustee $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Mark Israel 2013 Trustee $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Philip Mccaull 2013 Vice Chair $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Peter Mertz 2013 Trustee $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Catherine Richmond 2013 Trustee $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Andrew Samwick 2013 Trustee $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Roger Sloboda 2013 Trustee $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
John Vogel 2013 Trustee $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Steve Voigt 2013 Trustee $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Jenny Williams 2013 Trustee $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Cindy Pike 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 MARTHA CANFIELD MEMORIAL FREE LIBRARY INC
David Thomas 2014 Trustee $0 $0 MARTHA CANFIELD MEMORIAL FREE LIBRARY INC
Henry Cochran 2014 Trustee $0 $0 MARTHA CANFIELD MEMORIAL FREE LIBRARY INC
Tina Pollard 2016 Secretary $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Nicole Ravlin 2013 Vice Chair $0 $0 RUN VERMONT INC
Kevin Dwyer 2013 Chair $0 $0 RUN VERMONT INC
Tom Torti 2013 Secretary $0 $0 RUN VERMONT INC
Jed Dousevicz 2013 Director $0 $0 RUN VERMONT INC
Joe Carton 2013 Director $0 $0 RUN VERMONT 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.