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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Grant Crichfield 2016 Director $0 $0 CUBAN AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY INC
Peter Curtis 2016 Asst. Vp $0 $0 CUBAN AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY INC
Jeremy Matosky 2014 Vice President $0 $0 CSB YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Neil Hilt 2016 Bd Member $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN ACCESS TELEVISION INC
Gary Lebaron 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 DRIFTDUSTERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC
Martha Stanley 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HOMELESS PREVENTION CENTER
Sandra Baird 2016 Sec/Treasurer $0 $0 CUBAN AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY INC
Tom Alderman 2016 Director $0 $0 UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC
Asah Whalen 2016 Director $0 $0 UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC
Michelle Maseroni 2016 Director $0 $0 UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC
Cara Cookson 2016 President $0 $0 UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC
Ian Lacasse 2015 Member At Large $0 $0 BERLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
Reverend Jeffrey Potter 2016 Director $0 $0 GILMAN HOUSING TRUST INC
Dawn Russ 2014 Director $0 $0 ARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE INC
Patricia Sears 2016 Director $0 $0 GILMAN HOUSING TRUST INC
Tim O'Neill 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 GILMAN HOUSING TRUST INC
Toni Enright 2014 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND HEAD START ASSOCIATION
Tonia Wheeler 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Marty Cohn 2016 Vice President $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Jim Haine 2016 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Rob Szpila 2016 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Mike Mandracchia 2016 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Betsy Gentile 2016 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Jeffrey Hagstrom 2016 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Anna Saavedra 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

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.