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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Moise Viau 2014 Warden $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Russell Porwitzy 2014 Advocate $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Roger Royer 2014 Outside Guar $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Priscilla Alexander 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Susan Paris Borden 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Thelma Baroffio 2016 President $0 $0 GREATER NORTHFIELD SENIOR CITIZENS INC
Suzanne Brundage 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Matthew Clarke 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
William Derrough 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Michael Hecht 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Tracy Katsky Boomer 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
John J Kenney 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Daniel B Rowland 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Charlene Solow Schwartz 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
James Simon 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Nicholas Stephens 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Catharine Stimpson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Penelope Perkins Wilson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Christopher Dutton 2016 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Kevin Mendik 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Robert Taisey 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Richard Ayres 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Edna Baugh 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Robert Fiske 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Peter Hall 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL 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.