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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Missy Foote 2013 Director $0 $0 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Edwin Grant 2013 Director $0 $0 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Maureen Mclaughlin 2013 Director $0 $0 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Patrick Norton 2013 Director $0 $0 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Ken Perine 2013 Director $0 $0 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Steve Terry 2013 Director $0 $0 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Bill Townsend 2013 Chairman $0 $0 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Lisa Lovell 2013 Trustee $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Ed Jolley 2013 Trustee $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Jill Markert 2013 Trustee $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Barbara Estey 2013 Secretary $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Michael Harris 2014 President $0 $0 LYNDON RESCUE INC
Mark Bertolini 2014 Member $0 $0 LYNDON RESCUE INC
Jan Clausing 2014 Secretary $0 $0 LYNDON RESCUE INC
John Kascenska 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 LYNDON RESCUE INC
Bruce James 2014 Member $0 $0 LYNDON RESCUE INC
Del Reed 2014 Vice President $0 $0 LYNDON RESCUE INC
Benjamin Mccormack 2014 Member $0 $0 LYNDON RESCUE INC
Bruce Berryman 2014 Member $0 $0 LYNDON RESCUE INC
Jay Ramsey 2014 Member $0 $0 LYNDON RESCUE INC
Alavia Bertolini-Libby 2014 Member $0 $0 LYNDON RESCUE INC
Robert Snedeker 2014 Member $0 $0 LYNDON RESCUE INC
Paula Gaskin 2014 Member $0 $0 LYNDON RESCUE INC
Dorothy R Mitchell 2014 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT STUDENT DEVELOPMENT FUND INC
Martha P Heath 2014 Vice Chair & Chair Programs & Services Committee $0 $0 VERMONT STUDENT DEVELOPMENT FUND 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.