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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lori White 2017 Director $0 $0 BROADLINE RISK RETENTION GROUP INC
Mary Ann Castimore 2017 Director $0 $0 DRAGONHEART VERMONT INCORPORATED
Bruce Nelson 2017 Secretary $0 $0 DRAGONHEART VERMONT INCORPORATED
Nikki Hayes 2017 Director $0 $0 DRAGONHEART VERMONT INCORPORATED
John Lentine 2017 Director $0 $0 DRAGONHEART VERMONT INCORPORATED
Sharon Morris 2017 Director $0 $0 DRAGONHEART VERMONT INCORPORATED
Karin Clarke 2017 Board Chair $0 $0 DRAGONHEART VERMONT INCORPORATED
Brenda Howley 2017 Director $0 $0 DRAGONHEART VERMONT INCORPORATED
Elisabeth Degraaf 2017 Treas. $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL CIRCLE INC
Julia Gosliga 2017 Secretary $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL CIRCLE INC
Mandy Beenen 2017 Gen'L Adjunct $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL CIRCLE INC
Cindy Seligmann 2017 Board Vp $0 $0 NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL
Michael Seligmann 2017 Board Secretary $0 $0 NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL
Mike Hussey 2017 Board Member $0 $0 NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL
Kim Callahan 2017 Board Member $0 $0 NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL
Bruce Catlin 2017 Board Member $0 $0 NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL
Robert Haight 2017 President $0 $0 CONNECTICUT RIVER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Neil Daniels 2017 Vice President $0 $0 CONNECTICUT RIVER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Leslie Lever 2017 Director $0 $0 CONNECTICUT RIVER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Michael Knoras 2017 Secretary $0 $0 CONNECTICUT RIVER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Richard Brooks 2017 Trustee $0 $0 OTTAUQUECHEE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
Adam Ameele 2017 Trustee $0 $0 OTTAUQUECHEE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
Paul Regan 2017 Trustee $0 $0 OTTAUQUECHEE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
Jennifer Ciechanowicz 2017 Secretary $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Thomas Gallagher 2017 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

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.