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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kristin Winer 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB CHARITIES OF ESSEX VERMONT INC
Damon Clark 2017 Director $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB CHARITIES OF ESSEX VERMONT INC
Philip Douglas 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 GREEN MTN PUG RESCUE
Catherine Brooks 2017 President $0 $0 ROKEBY MUSEUM INC
Mary Dewees 2017 @ Large $0 $0 ROKEBY MUSEUM INC
Dean Leary 2017 Secretary $0 $0 ROKEBY MUSEUM INC
Jason Aldous 2017 Chair $0 $0 GOOD NEIGHBOR HEALTH CLINIC INC
Craig Westling 2017 Vice Chair $0 $0 GOOD NEIGHBOR HEALTH CLINIC INC
Trina Tatro 2017 Secretary $0 $0 GOOD NEIGHBOR HEALTH CLINIC INC
Jake Blum 2017 Trustee $0 $0 GOOD NEIGHBOR HEALTH CLINIC INC
Jeremy Eggleton 2017 Trustee $0 $0 GOOD NEIGHBOR HEALTH CLINIC INC
Barbara Farnsworth 2017 Trustee $0 $0 GOOD NEIGHBOR HEALTH CLINIC INC
Laura Fineberg 2017 Trustee $0 $0 GOOD NEIGHBOR HEALTH CLINIC INC
Ellen Gitomer 2017 Trustee $0 $0 GOOD NEIGHBOR HEALTH CLINIC INC
Alex Hartov 2017 Trustee $0 $0 GOOD NEIGHBOR HEALTH CLINIC INC
Donald Kollisch Md 2017 Trustee $0 $0 GOOD NEIGHBOR HEALTH CLINIC INC
Ron Spaulding 2017 Trustee $0 $0 GOOD NEIGHBOR HEALTH CLINIC INC
Stewart Read 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Dorothy Read 2017 Director $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Marguerite Janiszyn 2017 Director $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Margery Ladd 2017 Secretary $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Michael Smith 2017 President $0 $0 FALLS AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Alan Fowler 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 FALLS AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Barbara Kasper 2017 Secretary $0 $0 FALLS AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Seth Cruse 2017 Board Member $0 $0 FALLS AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION 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.