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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
John Davis 2017 Director $0 $0 THE PARKER GUN COLLECTORS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
Judith O'Connell 2017 Chair $0 $0 VBR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
Janice Ryan 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 VBR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt 2017 Newsletter Editor $0 $0 CHINESE LANGUAGE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION INC
Frank Driscoll 2015 Vice President $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN ISLANDERS DEVELOPING ESSENTIAL RESOURCES
Barry Waldner 2017 President $0 $0 KINGDOM ACCESS TELEVISION
Michael Welch 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 KINGDOM ACCESS TELEVISION
Robert Farlice-Rubio 2017 Director $0 $0 KINGDOM ACCESS TELEVISION
Aaron Young 2017 Director $0 $0 KINGDOM ACCESS TELEVISION
Kenneth Alexander 2017 President $0 $0 J MESSAGE GROUP CORP
Deborah Alexander 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 J MESSAGE GROUP CORP
William Fead 2017 Corp Secretary $0 $0 J MESSAGE GROUP CORP
Big Picture Farm 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Billings Farm Museum 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Blue Ledge Farm 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Blythedale Farm 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Bonnieview Sheep Dairy 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Boucher Family Farm 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Bridport Creamery 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Cabot Creamery Cooperative 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Cedar Hollow Farm 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Champlain Valley Creamery 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Cobb Hill Cheese 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Consider Bardwell Farm 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Crooked Mile Cheese 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL

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.