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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Ms Jane E S Sokolow 2013 Trustee $0 $0 HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
Mr Nicholas Rodenhouse 2013 Trustee $0 $0 HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
Dr Peter Groffman 2013 Trustee $0 $0 HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
Dr Pamela Templer 2013 Trustee $0 $0 HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
Melinda Moulton 2013 Chair $0 $0 STEPS PROGRAM INC
Patricia Prelock 2013 Secretary $0 $0 STEPS PROGRAM INC
Maurice Ouimet 2013 Director $0 $0 STEPS PROGRAM INC
Patricia Shane 2013 Director $0 $0 STEPS PROGRAM INC
Ted Young 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 STEPS PROGRAM INC
Paul Young 2013 Director $0 $0 STEPS PROGRAM INC
Peter Mclaughlin 2014 Chairman/Business Mgr. $0 $4,800 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Glenn Brackett 2014 Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Michael Spillane 2014 Vice Chair/Business Mgr $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Sandy Jacobs 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC
Glenn Brackett 2013 Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Michael Spillane 2013 Vice Chair & Business Mgr. $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Edward R Houston 2017 President $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS INC
Winston W Hart 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS INC
Sarah Dopp 2017 Director $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS INC
Natalie Pat Hall 2017 Director $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS INC
Hailey Gentile 2017 Director $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS INC
Matthew Derr 2017 Director $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS INC
Jennie Lutton 2017 President/Co $0 $0 ESSEX CHIPS INC
Heather Washburn 2017 Clerk $0 $0 ESSEX CHIPS INC
Hillary Danis 2017 Member $0 $0 ESSEX CHIPS INC

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.