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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Chris Runcie 2017 Director $0 $0 LEWIS CREEK WATER SHED ASSOCIATION
Louis Dupont 2017 Director $0 $0 LEWIS CREEK WATER SHED ASSOCIATION
Chris Slesar 2017 Director $0 $0 LEWIS CREEK WATER SHED ASSOCIATION
Joseph Sampson 2017 Chair $0 $0 BRADFORD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Steve Longmoore 2017 Vice-Chair $0 $0 BRADFORD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Gerhard Postpischil 2017 Secretary $0 $0 BRADFORD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Lynda Fischer 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 BRADFORD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Cody Plante 2017 Asst Treasurer $0 $0 BRADFORD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Sherry Brown 2017 Member $0 $0 BRADFORD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
David Perry 2017 Member $0 $0 BRADFORD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Robert Benjamin 2017 Member $0 $0 BRADFORD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
James Lawler 2017 President $0 $0 DISABLED SPORTS USA
Madeline Rockwell 2017 Secretary $0 $0 DISABLED SPORTS USA
Paul Sisson 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 LAKE STREET HOUSING CORPORATION
Holly Wendell 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 DISABLED SPORTS USA
Betsy Hurley 2017 Director $0 $0 DISABLED SPORTS USA
Kerry Hussey 2017 Director $0 $0 DISABLED SPORTS USA
Dan Forcier 2017 President $0 $0 ESSEX AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Jennifer Mcfaul 2017 1St Vice President - House $0 $0 ESSEX AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Sean Haggerty 2017 Secretary $0 $0 ESSEX AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Frank Parisi 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 ESSEX AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Patrick Burke 2017 Director $0 $0 ESSEX AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Julie Miller-Johnson 2017 Director $0 $0 ESSEX AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Bruce Garrapy 2017 Director $0 $0 ESSEX AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Mike Smith 2017 Director $0 $0 ESSEX AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC

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.