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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Andrew Rome 2013 Trustee $0 $0 HARRIS HILL SKI JUMP INC
Sandy Harris 2013 Trustee $0 $0 HARRIS HILL SKI JUMP INC
Michael Chater 2013 Board President $0 $0 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Michael Curtis 2013 Board Vice-President $0 $0 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Heather Higdon 2013 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Michael P Mcglynn 2013 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Mari Schaarschmidt 2013 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
James Brower 2013 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Monica Knorr 2013 President $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Ruth Stewart 2013 Vice President $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Kathy Mosenthal 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
David Nichols 2013 Secretary $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Keld Alstrup 2013 Director $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
John Cilio 2013 Director $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Chris Ponessi 2013 Director $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Brenna Warren 2013 Director $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Cheryl Young 2013 Director $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Kenneth Frey 2013 President $0 $0 STARK MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC
Penelope Parson 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 STARK MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC
George Gonnella 2013 Secretary $0 $0 STARK MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC
Sandra Strempel 2013 Vice President $0 $0 STARK MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC
Sarah Gallagher 2013 Director $0 $0 STARK MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC
Greg Scott 2013 Director $0 $0 STARK MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC
Troy Richardson 2013 President $0 $0 THE BUILDING TRADE CORPORATION
Kelley Legacy 2013 Secretary $0 $0 THE BUILDING TRADE CORPORATION

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.