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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Mr Jeff Arnold 2016 Director $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Dr Mark Benedetto 2016 Director $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Ms Deborah Hall 2016 Director $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Drwalter Kimbrough 2016 Director $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Mr Bob Schmoll 2016 Director $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Ms Karen Ward 2016 Director $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Eileen Boland 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
William Graves 2016 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Lorraine Impey 2016 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Elinor Levy 2016 Chair $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Bill Marshall 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Thomas Wales 2016 Treasurer/Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Bruce Palmer 2016 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Beth Emerson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Mary Ellen Reis 2016 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Shannon Lenzini 2016 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Kathryn Moritz 2016 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Denise Scavitto 2016 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Mary Swainbank 2016 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Wesley Ward 2016 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Chris Boffa 2017 President $0 $0 CSSU BUCCANEERS YOUTH FOOTBALL INC
Pam Niarchos 2017 Secretary $0 $0 CSSU BUCCANEERS YOUTH FOOTBALL INC
Shelly Masson 2017 Vice President $0 $0 CSSU BUCCANEERS YOUTH FOOTBALL INC
Jill Lowrey 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 CSSU BUCCANEERS YOUTH FOOTBALL INC
Robert Piekarski 2015 President $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION

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.