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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Katherine Foster 2016 Chairman $0 $0 NORTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE INCORPORATED
Ace Mcarleton 2016 Board Member $0 $0 YESTERMORROW INC
Susan Coffey 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 WONDER & WISDOM INC
G Gregory Worden 2016 Director $0 $0 GATEWAY FOUNDATION INC
William Vermouth 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 GATEWAY FOUNDATION INC
Erin Dezell 2015 Secretary $0 $0 WONDER & WISDOM INC
Robin Sweetapple 2016 Director $0 $0 GATEWAY FOUNDATION INC
Kirk Hazen 2016 Exec Council $0 $0 AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY
Alexandra D'Arcy 2016 Exec Council $0 $0 AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY
Jeffrey Reaser 2016 Exec Council $0 $0 AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY
Sonja Lanehart 2016 Exec Council $0 $0 AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY
Robert Bayley 2016 President $0 $0 AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY
Sali Tagliamonte 2016 President Elect $0 $0 AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY
Jesse Sheidlower 2016 Past President $0 $0 AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY
Grant Barrett 2016 Vice President $0 $0 AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY
Allan Metcalf 2016 Executive Secretary $0 $0 AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY
Luanne Von Schneidemesser 2016 Acls Delegate $0 $0 AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY
Gina Patterson 2016 Director $0 $0 GATEWAY FOUNDATION INC
Lisa Millican 2016 Vice President $0 $0 PROJECT PEARL
Stacie Kudamatsu 2016 Secretary $0 $0 PROJECT PEARL
Diane Brammer 2016 Board Member $0 $0 PROJECT PEARL
Kristin Marion 2016 Board Member $0 $0 PROJECT PEARL
Christina Scanlon 2016 Corresponding Secretary $0 $0 BARRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Brette Mcallister 2015 Former Director $0 $0 WONDER & WISDOM INC
Steven Gordon 2016 Director $0 $0 GATEWAY FOUNDATION 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.