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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Roland Moore 2015 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Susan Ford 2015 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Susan Fuller 2015 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Ward Goodenough 2015 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Charlie Wilson 2015 President $0 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Heidi Lang 2015 Vice President $0 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Robert Smith 2014 Director $0 $0 INTER-CARE FAMILY FOUNDATION LTD
Roy Marble Pres 2017 Morrisville, Vt $0 $0 FEDERATION FUND FOR CONSERVATION AND TRAINING INC
Ed Wilson Treas 2017 Morrisville, Vt $0 $0 FEDERATION FUND FOR CONSERVATION AND TRAINING INC
Mike Macduff 2017 Colchester, Vt $0 $0 FEDERATION FUND FOR CONSERVATION AND TRAINING INC
Vaughn Gross 2017 St Albans, Vt. $0 $0 FEDERATION FUND FOR CONSERVATION AND TRAINING INC
Mark Mccarthy 2017 Barre, Vt. $0 $0 FEDERATION FUND FOR CONSERVATION AND TRAINING INC
Evan Hughes 2017 Barre, Vt. $0 $0 FEDERATION FUND FOR CONSERVATION AND TRAINING INC
Dick Lyford 2017 Chelsea, Vt $0 $0 FEDERATION FUND FOR CONSERVATION AND TRAINING INC
Ramel Kuney 2017 Wolcott, Vt $0 $0 FEDERATION FUND FOR CONSERVATION AND TRAINING INC
Deborah Caldwell 2014 Secretary $0 $0 FINALLY HOME ANIMAL SANCTUARY OF VERMONT
Lisa Legrand 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 FINALLY HOME ANIMAL SANCTUARY OF VERMONT
Viviana Ruiz 2016 President $0 $0 CIRENAS INC
Daniel Grew 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CIRENAS INC
Lawrence Lunt 2016 Director $0 $0 CIRENAS INC
Robin Shover 2017 President $0 $0 PASSION 4 PAWS COMPANY
Tamara Clarke 2017 Vice President $0 $0 PASSION 4 PAWS COMPANY
Alex Martin 2014 President $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS INC
Wally Caswell 2014 Vice-President $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS INC
Kyle Grimes 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS 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.