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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Chris George 2016 Board Member $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Carrie Anderson 2016 Board Member $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Marshall Sprague 2013 Second Vice And Adjutant $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Carrol Bird 2013 Chaplin $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Dale Laval 2017 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTRY CLUB INC
Kim Meisinger 2017 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTRY CLUB INC
Ronald Cioffi 2017 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTRY CLUB INC
Candy Anderson 2017 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTRY CLUB INC
Kevin Markowski 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTRY CLUB INC
Kevin Thompson 2017 President $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTRY CLUB INC
Robert Wetherby 2017 Secretary $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTRY CLUB INC
Lorna Ricard 2016 President $0 $0 THE HARTFORD LIBRARY
Mary Boooth Benton 2016 Vice President $0 $0 THE HARTFORD LIBRARY
Carole Haehnel 2016 Secretary $0 $0 THE HARTFORD LIBRARY
Phyllis Bettis 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 THE HARTFORD LIBRARY
Lani Janisse 2016 Director $0 $0 THE HARTFORD LIBRARY
Jim Lovinsky 2016 President $0 $0 COPLEY HOUSE INC
Michele Sullivan-Dubois 2016 Member $0 $0 COPLEY HOUSE INC
Ted Lambert 2016 Member $0 $0 COPLEY HOUSE INC
Craig Provost 2016 Member $0 $0 COPLEY HOUSE INC
Michael Hartman 2016 Member $0 $0 COPLEY HOUSE INC
Brad Atwood 2016 President $0 $0 SHARON ACADEMY
John Roe 2016 Vice President $0 $0 SHARON ACADEMY
Todd Binzen 2016 Trustee $0 $0 SHARON ACADEMY
Dan Hudnut 2016 Trustee $0 $0 SHARON ACADEMY

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.