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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Betsy Holland 2017 Trustee $0 $0 KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Elaine Latzky 2017 Trustee $0 $0 KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Betty Gaechter 2017 Trustee $0 $0 KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
John Haley 2017 Trustee $0 $0 KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Christopher Keyser 2017 President $0 $0 KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Jane Kosmider 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Andrew Boxer 2017 Director $0 $0 BLACK RIVER VALLEY SENIOR CENTER
Thad Buckley 2017 Director $0 $0 BLACK RIVER VALLEY SENIOR CENTER
Katherine Yost 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 AMERICAN AGRI WOMEN
Mary Fregosi 2017 President $0 $0 PROCTOR FREE LIBRARY
Phyillis Lanz 2017 Vice President $0 $0 PROCTOR FREE LIBRARY
Cathy Canty 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 PROCTOR FREE LIBRARY
Kevin Mcdonnell 2017 Sectretary $0 $0 PROCTOR FREE LIBRARY
Shannon Maass 2017 Town Liasion $0 $0 PROCTOR FREE LIBRARY
Albert Curtis 2017 Trustee $0 $0 PROCTOR FREE LIBRARY
Brett Murphy 2017 President $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Rosemary Distel 2017 Vice President $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Linda Runnion 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Mickie Richardson 2017 Secretary $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Maggie Giffin 2017 Board Member $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Dr Beth Ann Maier 2017 Board Member $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Nancy Wuttke 2017 Board Member $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
The Right Reverend Thomas Clark Ely 2017 Board Member $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Paul Habersang 2017 Board Member $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Peter Hood 2017 President $0 $0 ELMHILL 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.