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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Raymond St John 2017 Historian $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Bryan Shanley 2017 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Carole Cole 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Donna Wescom 2017 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Geoff Grassette 2017 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Gloria Washburne 2017 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Mark Kolter 2017 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Michael Bourne 2017 President $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Patty Grassette 2017 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Paul Langevin 2017 Vice President $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Todd Washburne 2017 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Jason Richardson 2017 Chief Operating Officer $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Sue Clayton 2017 Board Member $0 $0 WASHINGTON CENTRAL FRIENDS OF EDUCATION INC
Karen Liebermann 2017 Vice President $0 $0 WASHINGTON CENTRAL FRIENDS OF EDUCATION INC
Cort Richardson 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 WASHINGTON CENTRAL FRIENDS OF EDUCATION INC
Sarah Kinter 2017 President $0 $0 WASHINGTON CENTRAL FRIENDS OF EDUCATION INC
Nancy Turner 2017 President $0 $0 THE GLOBAL DIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
Dr John R Stepp 2017 Secretary $0 $0 THE GLOBAL DIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
Darcie Houck 2017 Board Member $0 $0 THE GLOBAL DIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
Norma Ketay Asnes 2017 Board Member $0 $0 THE GLOBAL DIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
Dr Octaviana Trujillo 2017 Board Member $0 $0 THE GLOBAL DIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
Richard H Lawrence 2017 President $0 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
Chris Vance 2017 Vice-President $0 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
Al Dunn 2017 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
Dan Freeto 2017 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN

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.