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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Linda Winters 2014 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY
Jessalyn Gustin 2014 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY
Lauren Mcelroy Merrit 2014 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY
Cheryl Woodruff 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA
Shirley Brown 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA
Todd Fenton 2017 President $0 $0 MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA
Tammy Holcomb 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA
Andrea Rathbun 2017 Secretary $0 $0 MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA
Daniel Whitney 2017 Inner Guard $0 $0 MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA
Geraldine Woodruff 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA
Brad Saunders 2017 Outer Guard $0 $0 MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA
Karen Stomski 2017 Secretary $0 $0 MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA
Brian Degen 2017 President/Treasurer $0 $0 OPEN HEARTH COMMUNITY CENTER
Annemarie Furey 2017 Secretary $0 $0 OPEN HEARTH COMMUNITY CENTER
Annmarie Harmon 2017 Waitsfield Skateboard Park $0 $0 OPEN HEARTH COMMUNITY CENTER
Kaiya Korb 2017 Oh At Waitsfield Elem $0 $0 OPEN HEARTH COMMUNITY CENTER
Edward Paquin 2017 President $0 $0 CAMP EXCLAMATION POINT INC
Joscelyn Knight 2017 Director $0 $0 CAMP EXCLAMATION POINT INC
Frank Dike 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CENTER FOR HEALTH AND LEARNING LTD
Alan Graham 2017 Vice President $0 $0 CAMP EXCLAMATION POINT INC
Erin Shea 2017 Director $0 $0 CAMP EXCLAMATION POINT INC
Emily Gibbs 2017 Director $0 $0 CAMP EXCLAMATION POINT INC
Marianne Mollman 2017 Director $0 $0 CAMP EXCLAMATION POINT INC
Sue Bastian 2016 Board Member $0 $0 LONG TRAIL SCHOOL INC
Rett Carpenter 2017 Director $0 $0 ALLIANCE FOR VERMONT COMMUNITIES

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.