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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jennifer Haggerty 2013 Director $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Joel Desautels 2013 Director $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Kelly Griffin 2013 Director $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Kevin Plette 2013 Director $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Mary Lafountain 2013 Director $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Meredith Ackel 2013 Director $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Steve Contompasis 2013 Director $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Tim Kavanagh 2013 Director $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Bruce Williams 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 SHRINERS INTERNATIONAL
Eric Anderson 2013 Recorder $0 $0 SHRINERS INTERNATIONAL
Patricia Conly 2013 President $0 $0 DANVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Robin Rothman 2013 Secretary $0 $0 DANVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Mildred Labeur 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 DANVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Janet Carson 2013 Director At-Large $0 $0 DANVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Lynda Farrow 2013 Director At-Large $0 $0 DANVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Ida Rainville 2013 Director At-Large $0 $0 DANVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Carol Ottinger 2013 Old North Church $0 $0 DANVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
David Houston 2013 Greenbank'S Hollow $0 $0 DANVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Liz Sargent 2013 North Danville $0 $0 DANVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Dot Larrabee 2013 West Danville $0 $0 DANVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Rachel Stringer 2013 Secretary $0 $0 CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC
Janet Smithers 2013 Director $0 $0 CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC
Eric Silman 2013 Director $0 $0 CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC
Rob Lotito 2013 Director $0 $0 CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC
Bonnie Ferro 2013 Director $0 $0 MOBIUS 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.