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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Gordon M Cook Jr 2016 President $25,140 $0 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Paul Burns 2016 Executive Director $25,093 $7,728 VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC
Karen Cormier 2016 Office Manager $25,086 $0 PB AND J INC
Patrick Farley 2015 Exalted Ruler $25,080 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Karen Cormier 2015 Office Manager $25,071 $0 PB AND J INC
Stephen Bryant 2013 Treasurer $25,066 $0 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Jenevieve Johnson 2014 Executive Vice President $25,042 $0 SPRINGFIELD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Helen Labun 2017 Executive Direc $25,019 $0 VERMONT FRESH NETWORK CORPORATION
Elizabeth Ide 2013 Treas. / E.D. To 6/1/13 $25,000 $1,796 VERMONT LONG TERM DISASTER RECOVERY GROUP INC
Dorothy Collier 2015 Treasurer $25,000 $0 ORLEANS EMERGENCY UNIT INC
Jeanne Chenoweth 2013 Ed 3/15-7/28 $25,000 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Thomas G Verner 2017 President $25,000 $0 MAGICIANS WITHOUT BORDERS
Stephen P Adams Md 2013 Secretary/Treasurer $25,000 $0 UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTER INC
Burton D Tepfer Md 2013 Board Member $25,000 $0 BRATTLEBORO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Bradley Wells 2015 Artistic Dir $25,000 $0 ROOMFUL OF TEETH VOCAL ARTS PROJECT INC
Emma Schumann 2015 Exec Directo $25,000 $0 WHITE RIVER VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Dorothy Collier 2017 Treasurer $25,000 $0 ORLEANS EMERGENCY UNIT INC
David Rocchio 2016 President $25,000 $0 STOWE STORY LABS
Lyle Jepson 2013 Executive Dir. $25,000 $0 CAMP THORPE INC
Christine Crowe 2017 Director $25,000 $0 CROWE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Robert Boyd 2014 Executive Di $25,000 $0 TAI CHI INSTITUTE INC
Thomas G Verner 2016 President $25,000 $0 MAGICIANS WITHOUT BORDERS
Dorothy Collier 2016 Treasurer $25,000 $0 ORLEANS EMERGENCY UNIT INC
Ginny Callan 2015 Executive Dir. $25,000 $0 TRUSTEES OF THE WOOD ART GALLERY
J James Mancuso 2017 Vice President $24,972 $0 NORTHEASTERN BAPTIST COLLEGE 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.