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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Katie Watts 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT HEAD START ASSOCIATION INC
Lori Canfield 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT HEAD START ASSOCIATION INC
Ben Allen 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT HEAD START ASSOCIATION INC
George K Belcher Jd 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK INC
Peter D Mills Phd Ms 2017 Vice Chair $0 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK INC
Sally Bliss Rn Msb 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK INC
Peg Maffitt 2017 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK INC
Prema Menon Md 2017 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK INC
John Saryoan Md Faap 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK INC
Hilary Ryder Md 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK INC
Shaden Eldaker-Hein Md 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK INC
Alden Launer Mdiv 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK INC
Madeleine Mongan Esq 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK INC
Allston J Gilmond 2017 Quartermaster $0 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Daniel Mcintosh 2017 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF MIDDLEBURY HOCKEY INC
Adrienne Macintyre 2017 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF MIDDLEBURY HOCKEY INC
David Pistilli 2017 Maha Rep $0 $0 FRIENDS OF MIDDLEBURY HOCKEY INC
Mark Gleason 2017 Muhs Rep $0 $0 FRIENDS OF MIDDLEBURY HOCKEY INC
Dave Cole 2017 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF MIDDLEBURY HOCKEY INC
Michael Mcauliffe 2017 President $0 $0 FRIENDS OF MIDDLEBURY HOCKEY INC
Allan Duclos 2017 Vice-Pres $0 $0 FRIENDS OF MIDDLEBURY HOCKEY INC
Cindy Myhre 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 FRIENDS OF MIDDLEBURY HOCKEY INC
Ben Wilson 2017 Secretary $0 $0 FRIENDS OF MIDDLEBURY HOCKEY INC
Todd Mandell Md 2017 Trustee $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER INC
Sadie Fischesser 2017 President $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER 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.