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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Alice Sausville 2013 N/A $0 $0 WHITE CHAPEL SOCIETY INC
Jean D'Amico 2013 President $0 $0 TOR GUL INC
Jane Woodhouse 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 TOR GUL INC
Janice Applegate 2013 Director $0 $0 TOR GUL INC
Abbot Cutler 2013 Secretary $0 $0 TOR GUL INC
R Michael Murray 2013 Director $0 $0 CATV INC
Linda Carbino 2013 Director $0 $0 CATV INC
Clay Odell 2013 Director $0 $0 CATV INC
Frank Jones 2013 Director $0 $0 CATV INC
Bob Gere 2013 Board Chair $0 $0 CATV INC
Margaret Jacobs 2013 Secretary $0 $0 CATV INC
Paul Boucher 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 CATV INC
Susan Penharlow 2013 Director $0 $0 BARTON CHAMBERS APARTMENTS INC
Robert Morse 2013 Director $0 $0 BARTON CHAMBERS APARTMENTS INC
Rupert Chamberlin 2013 Director $0 $0 BARTON CHAMBERS APARTMENTS INC
John Brown 2013 President $0 $0 BARTON CHAMBERS APARTMENTS INC
Joyce Morse 2013 Vice Pres. $0 $0 BARTON CHAMBERS APARTMENTS INC
Muriel Chamberlin 2013 Secretary $0 $0 BARTON CHAMBERS APARTMENTS INC
Ron Bixby 2013 State Nat'L Director $0 $0 THE VERMONT INSURANCE AGENTS ASSOCIATION INC
Charles Ams 2013 Board Member $0 $0 THE VERMONT INSURANCE AGENTS ASSOCIATION INC
Peter Richards 2013 Board Member $0 $0 THE VERMONT INSURANCE AGENTS ASSOCIATION INC
Erin Odell 2013 Board Member $0 $0 THE VERMONT INSURANCE AGENTS ASSOCIATION INC
David P Whitney 2013 President $0 $0 SOUTH ROYALTON FIRE AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION INC
Paul Brock 2013 V. President $0 $0 SOUTH ROYALTON FIRE AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION INC
Thomas Trottier 2013 Secretary $0 $0 SOUTH ROYALTON FIRE AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION 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.