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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jane Conner 2014 President $0 $0 BLAKE MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Miranda Moody-Miller 2014 Trustee $0 $0 BLAKE MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Laura Waterman 2014 2Nd Vice-Pres $0 $0 BLAKE MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Greg Renner 2014 Trustee $0 $0 BLAKE MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Elizabeth H Locke 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 BLAKE MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Paula Cantor 2014 Director $0 $0 VOLUNTEERS FOR PEACE INC
Judy Cohen 2014 Director $0 $0 VOLUNTEERS FOR PEACE INC
Gretchen Craig 2014 Director $0 $0 VOLUNTEERS FOR PEACE INC
Charles Rudd Mackenzie 2014 Director $0 $0 VOLUNTEERS FOR PEACE INC
Tom Sherman 2014 Director $0 $0 VOLUNTEERS FOR PEACE INC
Scott Simpson 2014 President $0 $0 VOLUNTEERS FOR PEACE INC
Peter Coldwell 2014 Director $0 $0 VOLUNTEERS FOR PEACE INC
Jamena Grant 2014 Secretary $0 $0 VOLUNTEERS FOR PEACE INC
Cara Connors 2014 Director $0 $0 VOLUNTEERS FOR PEACE INC
D Scott Newman 2014 Trustee $0 $0 ISLE LAMOTTE REEF PRESERVATION TR INC
Kevin Behm 2014 Trustee $0 $0 ISLE LAMOTTE REEF PRESERVATION TR INC
Claire Durand 2014 Trustee $0 $0 ISLE LAMOTTE REEF PRESERVATION TR INC
Anthony Fowler 2014 Trustee $0 $0 ISLE LAMOTTE REEF PRESERVATION TR INC
Kris Luce 2014 Trustee $0 $0 ISLE LAMOTTE REEF PRESERVATION TR INC
Linda Fitch 2014 President $0 $0 ISLE LAMOTTE REEF PRESERVATION TR INC
Betsy Howland 2014 Vice President $0 $0 ISLE LAMOTTE REEF PRESERVATION TR INC
Robert Mcewen 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 ISLE LAMOTTE REEF PRESERVATION TR INC
Charles Shelley 2014 Secretary $0 $0 ISLE LAMOTTE REEF PRESERVATION TR INC
Robin Cappuccino 2013 Director $0 $0 WHEELOCK MOUNTAIN FARM INC
Christine Damon 2013 Director $0 $0 WHEELOCK MOUNTAIN FARM 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.