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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Regan Howard 2016 Board $0 $0 VERMONT GRANITE MUSEUM OF BARRE INC
Will Plumley 2014 Director $0 $0 NORTHERN FOREST CANOE TRAIL INC
Adam Martin 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT GRANITE MUSEUM OF BARRE INC
Gina Akley 2016 Board $0 $0 VERMONT GRANITE MUSEUM OF BARRE INC
Peter Anthony 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 VERMONT GRANITE MUSEUM OF BARRE INC
Jeffrey Martel 2016 Board $0 $0 VERMONT GRANITE MUSEUM OF BARRE INC
Patricia Meriam 2016 Chairman $0 $0 VERMONT GRANITE MUSEUM OF BARRE INC
Jane Van Buren 2016 Interim Pres $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Michael Abadi 2015 Board Member $0 $0 ONION RIVER COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA INC
Victoria Jarvis Term Ended 2016 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Eric Hanson Term Ended 2016 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Marnie Davis Term Ended 2016 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Ericka Canales Term Ended 2016 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Kathy Schirling 2016 Past Co-Chai $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Julie Richards 2016 Past Co-Chai $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Terrence Pomerleau 2016 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Jeanne Chenoweth 2016 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Nina Hurley 2016 Sectretary $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Lisa Fergerson Burns 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Susan Mcmillan Dvm 2016 Chair $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Diane Bazin 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES
Eveline Martin 2016 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTSINC
Lori Baker 2015 Co-Chair $0 $0 COMMUNITY JUSTICE NETWORK OF VERMONT
Yvonne Byrd 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 COMMUNITY JUSTICE NETWORK OF VERMONT
Gail Hall 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ENERGY EDUCATION PROGRAM INCORPORATED

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.