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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Sheila Murray 2017 Site Manager $0 $0 WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF
Sally Gottlieb 2017 Operations $0 $0 WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF
Helen Curtis 2017 Special Projects $0 $0 WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF
Tom Frank 2017 President $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC
Sharon Stepanovsky 2017 Secretary $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC
Mark R Gilbert 2017 President $0 $0 NORTHERN FRIENDS OF HAITI
Theresa L Fortner 2017 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHERN FRIENDS OF HAITI
Mark Gadue 2017 Vice President $0 $0 NORTHERN FRIENDS OF HAITI
Chris Mccarthy 2017 President $0 $0 WESTMORE FIREMANS ASSOCIATION INC
Ed Levie 2017 Vp & Secretary $0 $0 WESTMORE FIREMANS ASSOCIATION INC
Mary Young 2017 President $0 $0 WELLSPRING INSTITUTE INC
Sarah Houston 2017 Vice-Preside $0 $0 WELLSPRING INSTITUTE INC
Laura Caputo 2017 Treasurer/Se $0 $0 WELLSPRING INSTITUTE INC
Russell Carrara 2017 Fire Chief $0 $0 SHREWSBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Barry Griffith 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 SHREWSBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Barry Griffith 2017 Secretary $0 $0 SHREWSBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Robert Snarski 2017 Vice President $0 $0 SHREWSBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Mark Stewart 2017 Director $0 $0 SHREWSBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Elliott Stewart 2017 Director $0 $0 SHREWSBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Phillip Severy 2017 Director $0 $0 SHREWSBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
John Perry 2017 President $0 $0 SHREWSBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Jeff Taft 2017 Chairman/Board Of Directors $0 $0 ONE CREDIT UNION
Robert Reardon 2017 Treasurer/Board Of Directors $0 $0 ONE CREDIT UNION
John Clark 2017 Director $0 $0 ONE CREDIT UNION
Jack Mitchell 2017 Director $0 $0 ONE CREDIT UNION

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.