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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Heather Gardner 2016 Secretary $0 $0 BENNINGTON EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER
Stephanie Mulligan 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 BENNINGTON EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER
Caroline Mcbee 2016 President $0 $0 BENNINGTON EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER
Trever Mance 2016 Vice President $0 $0 BENNINGTON EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER
Pia Pearce 2016 Officer And Director $0 $0 LOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION INC
Geoffrey Vitt 2016 Director $0 $0 LOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION INC
June Heston 2016 Director $0 $0 LOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION INC
Kevin Pearce 2016 Officer $0 $0 LOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION INC
Sheela Harden 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC
Perez Ehrich 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC
Marianne Peters 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC
Brian Campion 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC
Laraine Smith 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC
Arnold Ricks 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC
Pat Guerrero 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC
James Brown 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC
Maru Leon-Griffin 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC
Ceil Petrucelli 2016 Secretary $0 $0 BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC
Raymond G Bolton 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC
Jon Goodrich 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC
Marc Simpson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC
Frances Holbrook 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC
Edie Sawitsky 2016 Chair $0 $0 BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC
Kenley Hallock 2016 Trustee $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION POST 19
Charles Commiskey 2016 Trustee $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION POST 19

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.