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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Pamela Lodish 2017 Director $0 $0 THE CIRCUS BARN INCORPORATED
Debra Ellis 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 THE CIRCUS BARN INCORPORATED
Joshua Wachs 2017 Director $0 $0 THE CIRCUS BARN INCORPORATED
Jim Zien 2017 Director $0 $0 THE CIRCUS BARN INCORPORATED
John Painter 2017 Director $0 $0 FLYIN RYAN HAWKS FOUNDATION INC
Samantha Stetson 2017 Director $0 $0 FLYIN RYAN HAWKS FOUNDATION INC
David Hallam 2017 Board Member $0 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Sally Conrad 2017 Board Member $0 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Christine Dunbar 2017 Board Member $0 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Bob Duncan 2017 Board Member $0 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Janice Gallant 2017 Board Member $0 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Allyson Laackman 2017 Board Member $0 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Marc Tischler 2017 Board Member $0 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Sally Macphee 2017 President $0 $0 VERMONT EASTERN STAR HOME INC
Rodney Churchill 2017 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT EASTERN STAR HOME INC
Erron Carey 2017 Assistant Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT EASTERN STAR HOME INC
Sherrill L Gould 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT EASTERN STAR HOME INC
Georganna Dow 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT EASTERN STAR HOME INC
David Katz 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT EASTERN STAR HOME INC
Penny Walker-Reen 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT EASTERN STAR HOME INC
Heather Hinckley 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT EASTERN STAR HOME INC
Chris Bradley 2017 President $0 $0 VERMONT FEDERATION OF SPORTSMENS CLUBS INC
Marcia Marble 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT FEDERATION OF SPORTSMENS CLUBS INC
Ed Wilson 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT FEDERATION OF SPORTSMENS CLUBS INC
Dwina Warren 2017 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT FEDERATION OF SPORTSMENS CLUBS 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.