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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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 Goodell 2017 Trustee $0 $0 KNIGHTS INC
John Bossange 2017 Chair $0 $0 PARKS FOUNDATION OF BURLINGTON
Susan Moses 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 PARKS FOUNDATION OF BURLINGTON
Scott Baldwin 2017 Director $0 $0 PARKS FOUNDATION OF BURLINGTON
Rick Blount 2017 Director $0 $0 PARKS FOUNDATION OF BURLINGTON
Peter Delaney 2017 Director $0 $0 PARKS FOUNDATION OF BURLINGTON
Sarah Muyskens 2017 Director $0 $0 PARKS FOUNDATION OF BURLINGTON
Ray Bellville 2017 Vice Pres. $0 $0 UNITED NURSES AND ALLIED PROFESSIONALS
Jeffrey Anderson 2015 Chairman $0 $0 ST JOHNS CLUB INC
Amy Rothenberge 2016 Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MTN PUG RESCUE
Jennifer Sugai 2016 Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MTN PUG RESCUE
Brian Kessler 2017 Quarter Master $0 $0 COCHRANS SKI CLUB INC
Bob Jones 2017 Board Member $0 $0 COCHRANS SKI CLUB INC
Jason Gifford 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 COCHRANS SKI CLUB INC
James Comar 2017 Board Pres $0 $0 MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
Tyson Fielding 2017 Director $0 $0 MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
Jillian Lourie 2017 Director $0 $0 MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
Kit Chamberlain 2017 2Nd Vice Pres $0 $0 MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
Karen Coppin 2017 Director $0 $0 MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
Chris Rutken 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
Alex Ramsvig 2017 Director $0 $0 MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
Merrick Counsell 2017 1St Vice Pres $0 $0 MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
Dave Quesnel 2017 Clerk $0 $0 MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
Robert Starkey 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 ADVANCE TRANSIT INC
Carolyn Radisch 2017 Secretary $0 $0 ADVANCE TRANSIT 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.