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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Stephen Heyneman 2013 Trustee $0 $0 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Ed Koral 2015 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT CAPTIVE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION
Steven Bauman 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CAPTIVE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION
Robert Gagliardi 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CAPTIVE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION
Diane Hanson 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CAPTIVE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION
Maureen Raeside 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CAPTIVE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION
William Motherway 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CAPTIVE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION
Seth Bongartz 2013 Board Chair $0 $0 BURR & BURTON ACADEMY
Brian Barefoot 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BURR & BURTON ACADEMY
Scott Swenor 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BURR & BURTON ACADEMY
Ed Campbell 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BURR & BURTON ACADEMY
Michael Cohen 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BURR & BURTON ACADEMY
Carol O'Connor 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BURR & BURTON ACADEMY
Cindy O'Leary 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BURR & BURTON ACADEMY
Mike Powers 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BURR & BURTON ACADEMY
Tony Whaling 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BURR & BURTON ACADEMY
Lu French 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BURR & BURTON ACADEMY
Skip Martin 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BURR & BURTON ACADEMY
Oliver Olsen 2013 Trustee $0 $0 BURR & BURTON ACADEMY
Deb Heleba 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
Andrew Knafel 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
Ross Thurber 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
Kate Turcotte 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
David Marchant 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
Steve Paddock 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT

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.