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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Will Patten 2017 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC
Tom Porter 2017 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC
Marc Sherman 2017 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC
Scott Willard 2017 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC
John Dale 2014 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Julie Laforce 2017 Secretary $0 $0 UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
Dean Delabruere 2017 Director $0 $0 UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
Pastor John Genco 2017 Director $0 $0 UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
Trish Dougherty 2017 President $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Tanya Scuteri 2017 Vice President $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Robyn Stattel 2017 Secretary $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Kevin Kite 2017 Board Member $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Erin Sassin 2017 Board Member $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Chris George 2017 Board Member $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Carrie Anderson 2017 Board Member $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Melanie Root 2017 Board Member $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Karen Poage 2017 Vice-President $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
Brad Ploof 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
Irene Wrenner 2017 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
Francois Miquel 2017 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
Brian Mcnabb 2017 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
Allegra Carpenter 2017 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
Sarah Mellinger 2017 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
Spence Putnam 2017 Secretary $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Elizabeth Smith 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.