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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kathy Allbright 2017 Past President $0 $0 VERMONT STATE WOMENS GOLF ASSOCIATION
Tom Heydinger 2017 Director $0 $0 GIRLS ON THE RUN OF VERMONT INC
Rick Hashagen 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 GIRLS ON THE RUN OF VERMONT INC
Lindsay Simpson 2017 Director $0 $0 GIRLS ON THE RUN OF VERMONT INC
Catherine Hamilton 2017 Director $0 $0 GIRLS ON THE RUN OF VERMONT INC
Peter Case 2017 Director $0 $0 GIRLS ON THE RUN OF VERMONT INC
Mary Claire Carroll 2017 Director $0 $0 WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS NETWORK
Suzy Harris 2017 Director $0 $0 WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS NETWORK
John Giroux 2017 Pres. $0 $0 THE PLACE OF REFRESHING INC
Kathleen Robare 2017 Sec. $0 $0 THE PLACE OF REFRESHING INC
Pauline Laperle 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 THE PLACE OF REFRESHING INC
Carl Phelps 2017 President $0 $0 BRANDON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
June Bohler 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 BRANDON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
Phoebe Chestna 2017 Borad Member $0 $0 BRANDON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
Stacey Doucette 2017 Borad Member $0 $0 BRANDON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
Sharron Kenney 2017 Board Member $0 $0 BRANDON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
Nancy Rowe 2017 Board Member $0 $0 BRANDON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
Jan Smith 2017 Board Member $0 $0 BRANDON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
Trip Willis 2017 Board Member $0 $0 BRANDON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
Jim Johnson 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INCORPORATED
Ruby Mcadoo 2017 Director $0 $0 NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INCORPORATED
Kathleen Mcgraw 2017 Director $0 $0 NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INCORPORATED
Stephen Phillips 2017 Director $0 $0 NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INCORPORATED
Virginia Scholl 2017 Director $0 $0 NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INCORPORATED
Barry Stockwell 2017 Director $0 $0 NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INCORPORATED

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.