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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Thomas Melloni 2017 Director $0 $0 RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC
Sharon Morrison 2017 Director $0 $0 RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC
Steve Conant 2017 Director $0 $0 RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC
Jim Lind 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES SUPPORTING EDUCATION
Jim Sullivan 2017 Secretary $0 $0 MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES SUPPORTING EDUCATION
Nancy Lanoue 2017 Secretary $0 $0 GALLERY AT THE VAULT INCORPORATED
Terri J Huck 2017 President $0 $0 GALLERY AT THE VAULT INCORPORATED
Raymond Austin 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 GALLERY AT THE VAULT INCORPORATED
Patricia Belknap 2017 Board Member $0 $0 GALLERY AT THE VAULT INCORPORATED
Charlotte Osterlund 2017 Board Member $0 $0 GALLERY AT THE VAULT INCORPORATED
John Hughes 2017 Board Member $0 $0 GALLERY AT THE VAULT INCORPORATED
Diane Kemble 2017 Board Member $0 $0 GALLERY AT THE VAULT INCORPORATED
Todd Barker 2017 Chair $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY GROUP INC
Kevin Cavanaugh 2017 Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY GROUP INC
Kenneth Locklin 2017 Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY GROUP INC
Brian Keane 2017 Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY GROUP INC
Julia Shin 2017 Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY GROUP INC
Ethan Frechette 2017 President $0 $0 SOUTH MAIN STREET HOUSING TR INC
Nancy Carroll 2017 Vice President $0 $0 SOUTH MAIN STREET HOUSING TR INC
Daniel Stannard 2017 Secretary & Treasurer $0 $0 SOUTH MAIN STREET HOUSING TR INC
Jeff Koonz 2017 President $0 $0 MIDDLESEX FIRE DEPARTMENT
Bill Smith 2017 Vice President $0 $0 MIDDLESEX FIRE DEPARTMENT
Shelly Hansen 2017 Secretary $0 $0 MIDDLESEX FIRE DEPARTMENT
Bob Bower 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 MIDDLESEX FIRE DEPARTMENT
Danielle Epstein 2017 President $0 $0 MARBLE HOUSE PROJECT 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.