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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Betsy Kauffman 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Jeremy Lewis 2017 Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Andrew Belden 2017 Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Brian Granahan 2017 Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Taresa Lawrence 2017 Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Ryan Wiser 2017 Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Greg Norris 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 UNION ARENA INC
Joanne Bertrand 2017 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY HISTORY & HERITAGE CENTER INC
Robert Desrochers 2017 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY HISTORY & HERITAGE CENTER INC
Susan Gallagher 2017 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY HISTORY & HERITAGE CENTER INC
David Reynolds 2017 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY HISTORY & HERITAGE CENTER INC
Shara Mccaffrey 2017 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY HISTORY & HERITAGE CENTER INC
Denise Scavitto 2017 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY HISTORY & HERITAGE CENTER INC
Peggy Pearl 2017 Director $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY HISTORY & HERITAGE CENTER INC
Reginald Wakeham 2017 President $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY HISTORY & HERITAGE CENTER INC
James Impey 2017 Vice President $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY HISTORY & HERITAGE CENTER INC
Martin Bryan 2017 Secretary $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY HISTORY & HERITAGE CENTER INC
Brenda Wilkins 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY HISTORY & HERITAGE CENTER INC
Dorothy R Mitchell 2017 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT STUDENT DEVELOPMENT FUND INC
Martha P Heath 2017 Vice Chair & Chair Programs & Services Committee $0 $0 VERMONT STUDENT DEVELOPMENT FUND INC
Newt Rose Trustee 2017 70 Orchard St, Ludlow, Vt 05149 $0 $0 BLACK RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
David Larson 2017 Secretary & Chair Corporate Governance Committee $0 $0 VERMONT STUDENT DEVELOPMENT FUND INC
Pamela A Chisholm 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT STUDENT DEVELOPMENT FUND INC
Ann E Cummings 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT STUDENT DEVELOPMENT FUND INC
Katherine B Hutchinson 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT STUDENT DEVELOPMENT FUND 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.