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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Denise Kellner 2017 Officer $0 $0 FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER ASSN INC
Lance Boardman 2017 Officer $0 $0 FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER ASSN INC
Joan Wollrath 2017 Board Secretary $0 $0 KINGDOM RECOVERY CENTER INC
Lucille Mckee 2017 Board Chair $0 $0 KINGDOM RECOVERY CENTER INC
Susan Cherry 2017 Board Member $0 $0 KINGDOM RECOVERY CENTER INC
Debra Bach 2017 Board Member $0 $0 KINGDOM RECOVERY CENTER INC
Amy Otten 2017 Secretary $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Tony Amenta 2017 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Paul Demers 2017 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Moira Durnin Anderson 2017 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Steve Fernandes 2017 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Trina Hosmer 2017 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Ned Houston 2017 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Peter Lane 2017 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Tick Alden Gaudreau 2017 President/ Treasurer $0 $0 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF DOWSERS INC
Leeann Potter 2017 Vice President $0 $0 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF DOWSERS INC
Annette Weis 2017 Trustee $0 $0 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF DOWSERS INC
Sandi Isgro 2017 Trustee $0 $0 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF DOWSERS INC
Keith Schaffer 2017 Trustee $0 $0 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF DOWSERS INC
John Kingston Iii 2017 President $0 $0 SWORD & SPOON WORKSHOP INC
Lindsay Flood 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 SWORD & SPOON WORKSHOP INC
Patricia Tompkins 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Wiliam Gardyne 2017 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Doug Spates 2017 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Ellen Stanley 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.