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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Tom Vanmeter 2016 Director $0 $0 DISABILITY RIGHTS VERMONT INC
Deb Charlea Baker 2016 Director $0 $0 DISABILITY RIGHTS VERMONT INC
Jesse Suter 2016 Director $0 $0 DISABILITY RIGHTS VERMONT INC
Ericka Riel 2016 Director $0 $0 DISABILITY RIGHTS VERMONT INC
David Gallagher 2016 Director $0 $0 DISABILITY RIGHTS VERMONT INC
Floride Carpenter 2015 President $0 $0 PEACEQUILTS INC
Dawn Barnard 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 PEACEQUILTS INC
Kent Carpenter 2017 Board Member $0 $0 THE PERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE INC
Glenn Harter 2016 Vice President $0 $0 RURAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INC
Robert Wilkins 2016 Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0 RURAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INC
Harold Bailey 2016 Director $0 $0 RURAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INC
Ed Jarrosak 2016 Director $0 $0 RURAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INC
Rob Moore 2016 Director $0 $0 RURAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INC
Judy Nommik 2016 Director $0 $0 RURAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INC
James Dumont 2014 Vice President $0 $0 NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST
Annie Faulkner 2014 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST
Thomas Butler 2014 President $0 $0 NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST
Merloyd Ludington 2014 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST
Frank Robey 2014 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST
Spencer Phillipsphd 2014 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST
Marc Lapinphd 2014 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST
Cynthia Pope White 2014 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST
Gwen Flewelling 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY PARENT-CHILD CENTER INC
Rev Bill Mills 2016 Member $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY PARENT-CHILD CENTER INC
Pamela Clark 2016 Member $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY PARENT-CHILD CENTER 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.