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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Emery Olcott 2017 Member $0 $0 MADSONIAN CORPORATION
David Sellers 2017 President/Ch $0 $0 MADSONIAN CORPORATION
Elizabeth Stevenson 2017 Secretary $0 $0 MADSONIAN CORPORATION
Fred Steele 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 MADSONIAN CORPORATION
Daniel W Farrell Jr 2017 Trustee $0 $0 PROMEDICA INDEMNITY INSURANCE CORPORATION
Elizabeth C Brady 2017 Trustee $0 $0 PROMEDICA INDEMNITY INSURANCE CORPORATION
Larry C Peterson 2017 Chairperson $0 $0 PROMEDICA INDEMNITY INSURANCE CORPORATION
Robert M Gagliardi 2017 Trustee $0 $0 PROMEDICA INDEMNITY INSURANCE CORPORATION
Stephanie Mapes 2017 Assistant Secretary $0 $0 PROMEDICA INDEMNITY INSURANCE CORPORATION
Giulia Eliason 2017 Secretary $0 $0 HELEN DAY ART CENTER INC
Ellisa Doiron 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 HELEN DAY ART CENTER INC
Adam Blue 2017 Trustee $0 $0 HELEN DAY ART CENTER INC
Gunnel Clarke 2017 Trustee $0 $0 HELEN DAY ART CENTER INC
Christopher Doyle 2017 Trustee $0 $0 HELEN DAY ART CENTER INC
Brian Hamor 2017 Trustee $0 $0 HELEN DAY ART CENTER INC
Diane Looney 2017 Trustee $0 $0 HELEN DAY ART CENTER INC
Molly Triffin 2017 Trustee $0 $0 HELEN DAY ART CENTER INC
Yu-Wen Wu 2017 Trustee $0 $0 HELEN DAY ART CENTER INC
Jill Zborovancik 2017 Trustee $0 $0 HELEN DAY ART CENTER INC
Bonnie Grover 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 T R I P DANCE COMPANY
Justin Classen 2017 President $0 $0 HOMELESS PREVENTION CENTER
Tom Hartigan 2017 Secretary $0 $0 HOMELESS PREVENTION CENTER
Jay Kullman 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 HOMELESS PREVENTION CENTER
Rachel Schneider 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 HOMELESS PREVENTION CENTER
Tonya Magoon 2017 Board Member $0 $0 HOMELESS PREVENTION CENTER

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.