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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Carolyn Shapiro 2017 Director $0 $0 BARRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Nick Sivret 2017 Director $0 $0 BARRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Cassandra Pastorelle 2017 Secretary $0 $0 WOMENS COMMUNITY CENTER INC
Nancy Witherill 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 WOMENS COMMUNITY CENTER INC
Lauren Higbee 2017 Trustee $0 $0 WOMENS COMMUNITY CENTER INC
Paige Martin 2017 Trustee $0 $0 WOMENS COMMUNITY CENTER INC
Louise Bonvechio 2017 President $0 $0 MEMPHREMAGOG SENIOR CITIZEN HOUSING INC
Reverend Jeffrey Potter 2017 Director $0 $0 MEMPHREMAGOG SENIOR CITIZEN HOUSING INC
Scott Campbell 2017 Director $0 $0 MEMPHREMAGOG SENIOR CITIZEN HOUSING INC
Tim O'Neill 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 MEMPHREMAGOG SENIOR CITIZEN HOUSING INC
Victoria Strong 2017 Director $0 $0 MEMPHREMAGOG SENIOR CITIZEN HOUSING INC
Kalia Lydgate 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 VERMONT WILDERNESS SCHOOL INC
Judith Hyde 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT WILDERNESS SCHOOL INC
Bob Wannop 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CARSHARE
Paul Plunkett 2017 Chairperson $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Ethan Bechtel 2017 Vice Chairpe $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Ernest A Pomerleau 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Stephen Terry 2017 Secretary $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Tim Baechle 2017 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Brad Aldrich 2017 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Jack Mcmullen 2017 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Charlie Baker 2017 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Kelly Devine 2017 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Ted Alder 2017 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Lisa Ventriss 2017 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP

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.