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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Roland Payne 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COVERTS
Tim Stetson 2017 President $0 $0 LUC GATES FOUNDATION INC
Jay Nichols 2017 Vice-Preside $0 $0 LUC GATES FOUNDATION INC
Jason Bapp 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 LUC GATES FOUNDATION INC
Gabriel Desautels 2017 Secretary $0 $0 LUC GATES FOUNDATION INC
Benjamin Deppman 2017 President $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Charlie Grigg 2017 Vice-President $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Peter Degraff 2017 Secretary $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Walter Deverell Jr 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Susan Anderson-Ray 2017 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Bruce Baker 2017 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Pieter Broucke 2017 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Dan Brown 2017 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Susan Donaldson James 2017 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Margaret Keith 2017 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Jorge Martin 2017 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Ashar Nelson 2017 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Kathryn Tilton 2017 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Cindy Seligmann 2017 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Beth Stanway 2017 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Paul Wyncoop 2017 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Michael Douglas 2017 Secretary $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CAPTIVE INSURANCE EDUCATION INC
Grainne Richmond 2017 Director $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CAPTIVE INSURANCE EDUCATION INC
Matt Takamine 2017 Director $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CAPTIVE INSURANCE EDUCATION INC
Jeff Simpson 2017 Director $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CAPTIVE INSURANCE EDUCATION 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.