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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Ann Duchin Lipsitt 2017 President $0 $0 WILL MILLER SOCIAL JUSTICE LECTURE SERIES
Michael Cassidy 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 WILL MILLER SOCIAL JUSTICE LECTURE SERIES
Helen Scott 2017 Secretary $0 $0 WILL MILLER SOCIAL JUSTICE LECTURE SERIES
Anne Petermann 2017 Director $0 $0 WILL MILLER SOCIAL JUSTICE LECTURE SERIES
David Polow 2017 Parliamentarian $0 $0 VERMONT TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
David Mickenberg 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
Richard Rubin 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
Lawrence Slason 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
David Silver 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
Karl Anderson 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
D James Mackall 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
Kelly Massicotte 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
Floride Carpenter 2014 President $0 $0 PEACEQUILTS INC
Dawn Barnard 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 PEACEQUILTS INC
Maureen Matthews Mcclintock 2014 Secretary $0 $0 PEACEQUILTS INC
Jeanne Staples 2014 Executive Dir. $0 $0 PEACEQUILTS INC
H William Davis 2017 President $0 $0 EKWANOK SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC
Thomas J Monahan 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 EKWANOK SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC
Richard C Lechthaler 2017 Director $0 $0 EKWANOK SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC
Elizabeth T Frank 2017 Director $0 $0 EKWANOK SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC
Cathy C Long 2017 Director $0 $0 EKWANOK SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC
Terrence Lee Clem 2017 President $0 $0 TLC HUMANITARIAN INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC
Adam Thomas Lee 2017 Vice President $0 $0 TLC HUMANITARIAN INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC
Jennifer Kathleen Appel 2017 Secretary $0 $0 TLC HUMANITARIAN INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC
Tamara Lynn Thomas 2017 Board Member $0 $0 TLC HUMANITARIAN INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS 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.