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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Patricia Mack 2016 Director $0 $0 GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION
Catherine Stratton 2016 Director $0 $0 GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION
John Clark 2016 President $0 $0 GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION
David Parmelee 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION
David Plants 2016 Secretary $0 $0 GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION
Cheryl Fatnassi 2017 Secretary $0 $0 BURLINGTON SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INITIATIVES INC
Michael A Choukas 2016 Chairman $0 $0 VERMONT ACADEMY
Casey Cota 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT ACADEMY
Thomas Capasse 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ACADEMY
Steven E Karol 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ACADEMY
David Holton 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ACADEMY
Lee Ryder 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ACADEMY
Mark W Smith 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ACADEMY
Michael Horowitz 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ACADEMY
S Tylor Tregellas 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ACADEMY
Jeff Baron 2016 Director $0 $0 YOUNG WRITERS PROJECT INC
Don Posner 2016 Director $0 $0 YOUNG WRITERS PROJECT INC
Kathy Folley 2016 Secretary $0 $0 YOUNG WRITERS PROJECT INC
Kathy Yanulavich 2016 Director $0 $0 YOUNG WRITERS PROJECT INC
Michael Mathon 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 YOUNG WRITERS PROJECT INC
Colin Dodgson 2016 Director $0 $0 YOUNG WRITERS PROJECT INC
Nicholas Morley 2016 Director $0 $0 YOUNG WRITERS PROJECT INC
Val Gardner 2016 Director $0 $0 YOUNG WRITERS PROJECT INC
David Carlson 2016 Director $0 $0 QUECHEE ALPINE SKI CLUB INC
Mary Carson 2016 Director $0 $0 QUECHEE ALPINE SKI CLUB 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.