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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Pat Richardson 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT FOSTER-ADOPTIVE FAMILY ASSOCIATION
Sue Travers 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT FOSTER-ADOPTIVE FAMILY ASSOCIATION
Dennis Hunt 2017 President $0 $0 GRAFTON CARES INC
Bill Toomey 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 GRAFTON CARES INC
Karen Hunt 2017 Secretary $0 $0 GRAFTON CARES INC
Cathy Hallock 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 GRAFTON CARES INC
Bill Kimball 2017 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION
Tracy Wrend 2017 President $0 $0 VERMONT SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION
David Younce 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION
Michael Clark 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION
Kevin Dirth 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION
Robin Sweetapple 2017 Director $0 $0 GATEWAY FOUNDATION INC
Brigid Nease 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION
Ned Kirsch 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION
Jeanne Collins 2017 President Elect $0 $0 VERMONT SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION
Zach Mclaughlin 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION
Elaine Pinckney 2017 Past President $0 $0 VERMONT SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION
Dan Towle 2017 Co-Chair $0 $0 ONION RIVER EXCHANGE
Edisa Muller 2017 Co-Chair $0 $0 ONION RIVER EXCHANGE
Eric L Bachman 2017 Secretary $0 $0 ONION RIVER EXCHANGE
Cynthia Carr 2017 President $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
Joan Cnossen 2017 Vice-President $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
Alvan Carr 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
Charles Hosford 2017 Board Member $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
Linda King 2017 Board Member $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE 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.