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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jennifer Moore 2017 Vice Chair $0 $0 NORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL INC
Erica Lin 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL INC
Lindsay Melzig 2017 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL INC
John Graf 2017 Trustee $0 $0 NORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL INC
Lauren Magrath 2017 Trustee $0 $0 NORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL INC
Dr Lauren Schneski 2017 President-Elect $0 $0 VERMONT VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Dr Ron Veenema 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Dr Millie Armstrong 2017 Past President $0 $0 VERMONT VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Dr Rick Baum 2017 Avma Delegate $0 $0 VERMONT VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Steve Simpson 2017 President $0 $0 NORTHEAST SLOPES INC
Wade Pierson 2017 Vice President $0 $0 NORTHEAST SLOPES INC
David Simpson 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHEAST SLOPES INC
Carl Demrow 2017 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHEAST SLOPES INC
Arvid Johnson 2017 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST SLOPES INC
Kris Marshia 2017 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST SLOPES INC
Ellen Arnold 2017 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST SLOPES INC
Margret Loftus 2017 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST SLOPES INC
Tabor Stride 2017 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST SLOPES INC
Peter Drummond 2017 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST SLOPES INC
Mary Ann Ledwith 2017 President $0 $0 STARBASE VERMONT INCORPORATED
Doug Griswold 2017 Director $0 $0 STARBASE VERMONT INCORPORATED
Shannon Leclair 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 STARBASE VERMONT INCORPORATED
Doug Gilman 2017 Director $0 $0 STARBASE VERMONT INCORPORATED
David Coen 2017 Director $0 $0 STARBASE VERMONT INCORPORATED
Peter Fagan 2017 Director $0 $0 STARBASE VERMONT INCORPORATED

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.