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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Glenn Berger 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Leslie Cadwell 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Brian Dunkiel 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Harold Jones 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Scott Cullen 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Catherine Mackenzie 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Shelley Colvin 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Edie Sawitsky 2016 Director $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Ted Bird 2016 Director $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Beth Wilwol 2016 Secretary $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Keith Carey 2016 Director $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Heather Maneely 2016 Director $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Matthew Harrington 2016 Director $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Jim Mcmillan 2016 Grand Knight $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Johnathon Quick 2016 Inside Guard $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Dave Lavallee 2016 Deputy Grand $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Mike Morse 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Dave Handy 2016 Chancellor $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Moise Viau 2016 Warden $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Bill Nyhan 2016 1St Trustee $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Russell Porwitzy 2016 Advocate $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Theodore Yandow 2016 2Nd Trustee $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Maurice Bonnette 2016 3Rd Trustee $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Roger Royer 2016 Outside Guar $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Allan Dragone Jr 2016 Vice Chair - Term Trustee $0 $0 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE

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.