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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Dody Day 2017 Secretary $0 $0 LAMOILLE AREA BOARD OF REALTORS
Dave Jamieson 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 LAMOILLE AREA BOARD OF REALTORS
Jeff Beattie 2017 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE AREA BOARD OF REALTORS
Andrew Gillespie 2017 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE AREA BOARD OF REALTORS
Emma P Burke 2017 Secretary/Trea $0 $0 HIS INDEPENDENCE PROJECT INC
Brian Cavanuugh 2017 Director $0 $0 HIS INDEPENDENCE PROJECT INC
Jim Kelley 2017 Director $0 $0 HIS INDEPENDENCE PROJECT INC
Ellen Marceau 2017 Former Director $0 $0 HIS INDEPENDENCE PROJECT INC
Kay Cavanaugh 2017 Director $0 $0 HIS INDEPENDENCE PROJECT INC
C Sue Sharp 2017 Vice President $0 $0 HIS INDEPENDENCE PROJECT INC
Peter Brooke 2017 Chair $0 $0 THE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC
Margaret Cheney 2017 Trustee $0 $0 THE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC
Jared Keyes 2017 Vice-Chair, Treasurer $0 $0 THE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC
Elizabeth Ruml 2017 Trustee $0 $0 THE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC
Doug Flack 2017 Director $0 $0 RURAL EDUCATION ACTION PROJECT
Lisa Mccrory 2017 Director $0 $0 RURAL EDUCATION ACTION PROJECT
John Pollard 2017 Director $0 $0 RURAL EDUCATION ACTION PROJECT
Kalyn Campbell 2017 Director $0 $0 RURAL EDUCATION ACTION PROJECT
John Lomachinsky 2017 Director $0 $0 RURAL EDUCATION ACTION PROJECT
William Duggan 2017 Director $0 $0 MEMBERS 1ST CREDIT UNION
David Cotton 2017 Director $0 $0 MEMBERS 1ST CREDIT UNION
Steve Clark 2017 Director $0 $0 MEMBERS 1ST CREDIT UNION
Kathy King 2017 Chairperson Supervisory Committee $0 $0 MEMBERS 1ST CREDIT UNION
Sheri Bolster 2017 Supervisory Committee Member $0 $0 MEMBERS 1ST CREDIT UNION
Daniel Dempsey 2017 Chairman $0 $0 RETREAT FARM

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.