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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Stewart Mcdermet 2017 Trustee $0 $0 WINDHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
Elizabeth Dana 2017 Sec $0 $0 WINDHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
Richard Epstein 2017 President $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CAMP INC
Kristina Naylor 2017 Vice President $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CAMP INC
Debra Hicks 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CAMP INC
Sarah Armour-Jones 2017 Board Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CAMP INC
Mark Brown 2017 Board Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CAMP INC
Heather Golding 2017 Board Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CAMP INC
Bess Richardson 2017 Board Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CAMP INC
Renee Woliver 2017 Board Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CAMP INC
Jeff Norway 2017 President $0 $0 VERMONT ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION INC
Matt Buehrer 2017 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION INC
Donald W Pierce 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION INC
Steve Richard 2017 Past Preside $0 $0 VERMONT ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION INC
Tom Deforge 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION INC
Seth Coombs Md 2017 Director $0 $0 PARK STREET HEALTHSHARE INC
Tracy Upton Rn 2017 Director $0 $0 PARK STREET HEALTHSHARE INC
Joanne Calvi 2017 Director $0 $0 PARK STREET HEALTHSHARE INC
Paul Garstki 2016 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC
Comm Matthew Prouty 2017 Director $0 $0 PARK STREET HEALTHSHARE INC
Carol Egan 2017 Director $0 $0 PARK STREET HEALTHSHARE INC
Peter Kinder 2015 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Andrea Morgante 2017 President $0 $0 LEWIS CREEK WATER SHED ASSOCIATION
Peter Erb 2017 Vice President $0 $0 LEWIS CREEK WATER SHED ASSOCIATION
Stevie Spencer 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 LEWIS CREEK WATER SHED ASSOCIATION

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.