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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jo Anne Edwards 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC
Polly Mcmurtry 2016 Orchestra Representative $0 $0 VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC
Becky Bowen 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC
Benjamin King 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC
Ron Merolli 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC
Andrew Macwilliam 2016 Chairman $0 $0 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Jim Bee 2016 Past Chairman $0 $0 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Matthew Boucher 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Tom Sullivan 2016 Vice Chairman $0 $0 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Charles S Goodwin 2016 Vice Chairman $0 $0 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Kirk Sheilds 2016 Chairman $0 $0 VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC
Christine Carrara 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC
Caryn Casey-Hurka 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC
Jeffrey N Wennberg 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC
Samuel J Groom 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC
Elise Annes 2014 Director $0 $0 CAPITAL SOCCER CLUB INC
Michael Gawne 2016 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Bridget Howrigan Rivet 2016 Chairperson $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Todd Wimette 2016 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Kathleen Keenan 2016 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Fern Mercure 2016 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Lisa Hango 2016 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Rae L'Esperance 2016 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Elizabeth Malone 2016 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Maryann Mcdermott 2016 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY 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.