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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Joan Bingham 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Joan Bingham 2017 Registrar $0 $0 NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Joan Bingham 2017 Historian $0 $0 NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Barbara Lane 2017 Recording Secretary $0 $0 NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
R Michael Abatiel 2017 Vice President Of Board Of Directors $0 $0 CREDIT UNION OF VERMONT
David R Coates 2013 Chair Audit Committee $0 $0 VERMONT STUDENT DEVELOPMENT FUND INC
Chris Kiefer-Cioffi 2017 Secretary, Board Of Directors $0 $0 CREDIT UNION OF VERMONT
Shirley Mckirryher 2017 Board Of Directors $0 $0 CREDIT UNION OF VERMONT
Mike Quick 2017 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND ALPACA OWNERS & BREEDERS ASSOC
Ronald Savageau 2017 Board Of Directors $0 $0 CREDIT UNION OF VERMONT
Patricia Forbes 2017 Board Of Directors $0 $0 CREDIT UNION OF VERMONT
Neva Cunningham 2017 Director $0 $0 CAMBRIDGE REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER INC
Phil Rogers 2017 Director $0 $0 CAMBRIDGE REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER INC
Charles Cyr Od 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION INC
Dean Barcelow 2017 President $0 $0 VERMONT OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION INC
Garuna Hartnett 2017 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION INC
Muriel Chamberlin 2017 Director $0 $0 BARTON CHAMBERS APARTMENTS INC
Rupert Chamberlin 2017 Director $0 $0 BARTON CHAMBERS APARTMENTS INC
Grace Mason 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 BARTON CHAMBERS APARTMENTS INC
Susan Dunning 2017 Secretary $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA FARMERS MARKET INC
Malah Miller 2017 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA FARMERS MARKET INC
Ingrid Chrisco 2017 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA FARMERS MARKET INC
Syla Sengaloun 2017 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA FARMERS MARKET INC
Joel Miller 2014 Director $0 $0 FRANCIS FOUNDATION INC
Janet Franz 2017 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT GOVERNORS COUNCIL ON PHYSICAL FITNESS

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.