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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jenny Carter 2013 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMPANION ANIMAL NEUTERING INC
Sheryl Rapee-Adams 2013 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT COMPANION ANIMAL NEUTERING INC
Linda Gage 2013 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMPANION ANIMAL NEUTERING INC
Mary Beth Sweetland 2013 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMPANION ANIMAL NEUTERING INC
Bernard F Hemond Jr 2016 Grand Knight $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Tom Giffen 2013 President $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY COURT DIVERSION AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER INC
Rod Pulsifer 2013 Vice Preside $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY COURT DIVERSION AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER INC
Merry Postemski 2013 Secretary $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY COURT DIVERSION AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER INC
Grover Usilton 2013 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Bonita Bedard 2013 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Don Devost 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Bill Sayre 2013 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Sam Cutting Iv 2013 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Larry Goetschius 2013 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Ben Wilson 2013 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Christopher D'Elia 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
Therese M Corsones Esq 2013 Vice-President $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
Jesse D Bugbee Esq 2013 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
Hon John A Dooley Iii 2013 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
Daniel P Richardson Esq 2013 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
Mary C Welford Esq 2013 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
Karen L Tyler Esq 2013 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
Eric G Velto Esq 2013 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
James F Carroll Esq 2013 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
Amber L Barber Esq 2013 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION

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.