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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Sandy Johnson 2016 Secretary $0 $0 WINDSOR COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES
John Dean 2016 Director $0 $0 WINDSOR COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES
Brenda Gregory 2016 Director $0 $0 WINDSOR COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES
Marianna Mcguffin 2016 Director $0 $0 WINDSOR COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES
Alexa Euler 2016 President $0 $0 RED CEDAR SCHOOL INC
Philip Bartsch 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 RED CEDAR SCHOOL INC
Kirsten St Louis 2016 Board Member $0 $0 RED CEDAR SCHOOL INC
Stacy Carter 2016 Board Member $0 $0 RED CEDAR SCHOOL INC
Ann Kensck 2016 Board Member $0 $0 RED CEDAR SCHOOL INC
William Boggess 2017 Conductor $0 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Lauren Merritt 2014 Member-At-Large $0 $0 CHILDRENS DAY CARE CENTER INC
Erin Koch 2014 Co Chair $0 $0 CHILDRENS DAY CARE CENTER INC
Jenneth Fleckenstein 2014 Co Chair $0 $0 CHILDRENS DAY CARE CENTER INC
Jean Goldhammer 2014 Secretary $0 $0 CHILDRENS DAY CARE CENTER INC
Kevin Copeland 2013 Board Member $0 $0 GRANITE HILLS CREDIT UNION
Stephen Killoran 2013 Board Member $0 $0 GRANITE HILLS CREDIT UNION
Michael Pinkans 2013 Vice Chairperson $0 $0 GRANITE HILLS CREDIT UNION
Sandra Colvin 2013 Board Member $0 $0 GRANITE HILLS CREDIT UNION
Scott Wheeler 2013 Chairperson $0 $0 GRANITE HILLS CREDIT UNION
Timothy Grenon 2013 Secretary $0 $0 GRANITE HILLS CREDIT UNION
Margaret Burns 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BETASAB
Cynthia Stoldt 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BETASAB
Lorraine Tobias 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BETASAB
Claudia Cooper 2016 Board Chairman $0 $0 BETASAB
Danielle Epstein 2014 President $0 $0 MARBLE HOUSE PROJECT 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.