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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lisa Cashdan 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Betsy Rathbun-Gunn 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Michael M Metz 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Jay Kenlan 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Tim Volk 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Carolyn Dwyer 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Becky Wang 2017 Chair $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC
Karen Cady 2017 Secretary $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC
Stephen Payne 2017 Trustee $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC
David Raphael 2017 Trustee $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC
David Boehm 2017 Trustee $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC
Paul Ruoff 2017 Vice Chair $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC
Don Kinneston 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC
Bill Riley 2017 Trustee $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC
Robert H Young 2016 President $0 $0 VERMONT MARBLE MUSEUM INC
Victoria P Young 2016 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT MARBLE MUSEUM INC
Ina S Johnson 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT MARBLE MUSEUM INC
Paul Bruhn 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT MARBLE MUSEUM INC
Mary Ann Lauder 2014 Secretary $0 $0 AREA RESOURCE FOR INDIVIDUALIZED SERVICES INC
Dr Simon Solano 2014 Member $0 $0 AREA RESOURCE FOR INDIVIDUALIZED SERVICES INC
Thomas Mcgibney 2014 Judge Advocate $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Richard Harlow 2014 1St Vice Comman $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Glenn French 2014 Srgnt At Arms $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
K B Cheney 2017 Bod, Chairperson $0 $0 VERMONT STATE EMPLOYEES CREDIT UNION
J P Rosenstreich 2017 Bod $0 $0 VERMONT STATE EMPLOYEES CREDIT UNION

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.