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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
David Beattie 2017 Trustee At Large $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Marlin Devenger 2017 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Patricia Emery 2017 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
T Michael Flynn 2017 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Amy Mcgarry 2017 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Laura Ashton 2017 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Peter Hopkins 2017 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Lorraine Matteis 2017 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Emery Noyes 2017 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Nathan Sicard 2017 Secretary $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Daniel Heath 2017 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Mary Perry 2017 Vice-President $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD ON THE MOVE INC
Sandra Macgillivray 2017 Secretary $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD ON THE MOVE INC
Carol Eramo 2017 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD ON THE MOVE INC
Barbara Sanderson 2017 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD ON THE MOVE INC
Heather Hartford 2017 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD ON THE MOVE INC
Diane Parker 2017 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD ON THE MOVE INC
Alan Woodbury 2017 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD ON THE MOVE INC
Chris Rundle 2017 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD ON THE MOVE INC
Louise Bonvechio 2017 President $0 $0 GROTON VILLAGE HOUSING INC
Reverend Jeffrey Potter 2017 Director $0 $0 GROTON VILLAGE HOUSING INC
Scott Campbell 2017 Director $0 $0 GROTON VILLAGE HOUSING INC
Tim O'Neill 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 GROTON VILLAGE HOUSING INC
Victoria Strong 2017 Director $0 $0 GROTON VILLAGE HOUSING INC
Lisa Debernardo 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 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.