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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Amy Messina 2017 Director $0 $0 WINDSOR COUNTY BOARD OF REALTORS INC
Dana Waters 2017 Director $0 $0 WINDSOR COUNTY BOARD OF REALTORS INC
Kerri Lamb 2017 Secretary $0 $0 SPAULDING HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION LTD
Ed Rousse 2017 President $0 $0 SPAULDING HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION LTD
John Pandolfo 2017 Director $0 $0 SPAULDING HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION LTD
David Lacroix 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 SPAULDING HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION LTD
Fran Pinard 2017 Director $0 $0 SPAULDING HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION LTD
Brenda Waterhouse 2017 Director $0 $0 SPAULDING HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION LTD
Thomas Kavet 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 INNER FIRE
Laurie Rabut 2017 Secretary $0 $0 INNER FIRE
Jane Coolidge 2017 Vice President $0 $0 BRANDON SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC
Lucy Rouse 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 BRANDON SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC
Phyllis Aitchison 2017 Secretary $0 $0 BRANDON SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC
Britt Moulton 2017 President $0 $0 CHARLESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Andrea Moulton 2017 Secretary $0 $0 CHARLESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Daniel A Whipple 2017 Vice President $0 $0 CHARLESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Blair Moulton 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 CHARLESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Joan Petrillo 2017 Secretary $0 $0 ROCHESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY LTD
Lesley Straus 2017 President And Treasurer $0 $0 ROCHESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY LTD
Joanna Woos 2017 Executive Director - Green $0 $0 ROCHESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY LTD
Lucy Marsh 2017 Director $0 $0 ROCHESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY LTD
Joan Landis 2017 Director $0 $0 ROCHESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY LTD
Mary Beth Deller 2017 Director $0 $0 ROCHESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY LTD
Priscilla H Baker 2017 Director $0 $0 ROCHESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY LTD
Matt Viens 2017 Director $0 $0 PRESERVATION BURLINGTON 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.