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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Julia Child 2013 Secretary $0 $0 HOSPICE VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC
Amy Hastings 2013 President $0 $0 HOSPICE VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC
Barry Francis 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 HOSPICE VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC
Vanessa Wolff 2013 Director $0 $0 HOSPICE VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC
Liane Barrera 2013 Vice President $0 $0 HOSPICE VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC
Susan Humphrey 2013 Director $0 $0 HOSPICE VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC
Robert C Bushway 2013 Trustee - Chair $0 $0 BARRETT MEMORIAL HALL
Gretchen Graner 2013 Trustee - Secretary $0 $0 BARRETT MEMORIAL HALL
Rebecca Seibel 2013 Trustee - Treasurer $0 $0 BARRETT MEMORIAL HALL
David Sunshine 2013 Director $0 $0 NETWORKS INC
Robert Silverstein 2013 Vice President $0 $0 NETWORKS INC
Ray Bohannon 2013 Commander/Or $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Robert Pearl 2013 Service Offi $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Adam Piper 2013 Secretary $0 $0 LAKE STREET HOUSING CORPORATION
William Pearson 2013 Director $0 $0 LAKE STREET HOUSING CORPORATION
Carina Driscoll 2013 Director $0 $0 LAKE STREET HOUSING CORPORATION
Rosalyn Graham 2013 Director $0 $0 LAKE STREET HOUSING CORPORATION
Mary Willmuth 2013 President $0 $0 THE CHAMPLAIN ADAPTIVE MOUNTED PROGRAM
Julie Horrigan 2013 Board Member $0 $0 THE CHAMPLAIN ADAPTIVE MOUNTED PROGRAM
Molly Holland 2013 Board Member $0 $0 THE CHAMPLAIN ADAPTIVE MOUNTED PROGRAM
Jackie Cole 2013 Board Member $0 $0 THE CHAMPLAIN ADAPTIVE MOUNTED PROGRAM
Norman Marshall 2013 Exalted Ruler $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Lisa Ventriss 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ETV INC
Chad Schmidt 2013 Trustee $0 $0 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Brian Walsh 2013 Trustee $0 $0 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD 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.