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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Charles Gurney 2013 Trustee $0 $0 ISLE LAMOTTE REEF PRESERVATION TR INC
Anthony Fowler 2013 Trustee $0 $0 ISLE LAMOTTE REEF PRESERVATION TR INC
Kris Luce 2013 Trustee $0 $0 ISLE LAMOTTE REEF PRESERVATION TR INC
Linda Fitch 2013 President $0 $0 ISLE LAMOTTE REEF PRESERVATION TR INC
Betsy Howland 2013 Vice President $0 $0 ISLE LAMOTTE REEF PRESERVATION TR INC
Robert Mcewen 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 ISLE LAMOTTE REEF PRESERVATION TR INC
Charles Shelley 2013 Secretary $0 $0 ISLE LAMOTTE REEF PRESERVATION TR INC
Bob Bloch 2016 Director $0 $0 CHARLOTTE NEWS INC
Louisa Schibli 2016 Director $0 $0 CHARLOTTE NEWS INC
Jill Snapp 2015 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHWEST P E G TV INCORPORATED
Lisa Depalo 2013 Secretary $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY COMMUNITY BAND
Ann Bunnell 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY COMMUNITY BAND
Angela Walton 2013 Sec $0 $0 SOJOURNS COMMUNITY CLINIC INC
Mike Mrowicki 2013 Dir $0 $0 SOJOURNS COMMUNITY CLINIC INC
David Buchdahl 2013 Dir $0 $0 SOJOURNS COMMUNITY CLINIC INC
Charlotte Simpson 2013 Vice-Pres $0 $0 LYNDON AREA SENIOR ACTION CENTER INC
Elaine Noyes 2013 Secretary $0 $0 LYNDON AREA SENIOR ACTION CENTER INC
Mary Rexford 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 LYNDON AREA SENIOR ACTION CENTER INC
Edith Mitchell 2013 Director $0 $0 LYNDON AREA SENIOR ACTION CENTER INC
Charlotte Simpson 2013 Director $0 $0 LYNDON AREA SENIOR ACTION CENTER INC
Mary Rexford 2013 Director $0 $0 LYNDON AREA SENIOR ACTION CENTER INC
Gerald Fredrickson 2013 President $0 $0 MERTENS HOUSE INC
Reinhart Jeck 2013 Vice President $0 $0 MERTENS HOUSE INC
Patricia Compton 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 MERTENS HOUSE INC
Susan Ford 2013 Secretary $0 $0 MERTENS HOUSE 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.