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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Sue Pierce 2017 Recording Secrtary $0 $0 COMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD INC
Mark Madison 2017 Vice President $0 $0 COMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD INC
Jim West 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 COMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD INC
Ginger Foss 2017 Corresponding Secretary $0 $0 COMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD INC
Jann Perkins 2017 Vice- Chairm $0 $0 VERMONT SKI MUSEUM INC
Rob Apple 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT SKI MUSEUM INC
Foster Chandler 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SKI MUSEUM INC
Denise Cushwa 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SKI MUSEUM INC
Rick Moulton 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SKI MUSEUM INC
Parker Riehle 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SKI MUSEUM INC
Sharon Sisler 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SKI MUSEUM INC
Steve Julian Cpa 2017 Director $0 $0 VSCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Frank Cody Cpa 2017 Chair $0 $0 VSCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Kathryn Granai Cpa 2017 Secretary $0 $0 VSCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Gwen E Flewelling Cpa 2017 Director $0 $0 VSCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Susan B Hughes Cpa 2017 Director $0 $0 VSCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Fred Moses 2015 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNS CLUB INC
Lorraine Paine 2016 Secretary $0 $0 GREEN MTN PUG RESCUE
Sally Dillon 2017 Trustee $0 $0 WATERBURY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Holly O'Brien 2017 Trustee $0 $0 WATERBURY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Irene Mcdermut 2017 President $0 $0 JAY PEAK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Kay Courson 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 JAY PEAK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Jared Jewett 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 JAY PEAK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Brian Cook 2017 Secretary $0 $0 JAY PEAK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Darren Drevik 2017 Director $0 $0 JAY PEAK 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.