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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Eileen Murphy 2017 Director $0 $0 SAFELINE INC
Katharine F Nelson 2017 Secretary $0 $0 SAFELINE INC
Felicity Swayze 2017 Chair $0 $0 SAFELINE INC
Ricky Padgett 2017 Board Vp/Treasurer $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
Laura Wilson 2017 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
James Calvin Davis 2017 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
Ali Dieng 2017 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
Mark Boudreau 2017 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
Cody Fiala 2017 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
Jean Albee 2017 Chair $0 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Rob Rowell 2017 Vice Chair/Treasurer $0 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Ann Albee 2017 Secretary $0 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Stan Adams 2017 Ilf Representative $0 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Jessica Emerson 2017 Gch Representative $0 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Sally Wadsworth 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Susan Lecours 2017 Town Appointed Member $0 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Bucky Pelsue 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Samantha Eagle 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Adam Necrason 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 PACEM SCHOOL INC
Jennifer Howard 2017 President $0 $0 THE VALLEY PLAYERS
Sharon Kellerman 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 THE VALLEY PLAYERS
Shannon Sanborn 2017 Secretary $0 $0 THE VALLEY PLAYERS
Henry Erickson 2017 Director $0 $0 THE VALLEY PLAYERS
Douglas Bergstein 2017 Director $0 $0 THE VALLEY PLAYERS
James O'Neill 2017 Director $0 $0 THE VALLEY PLAYERS

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.