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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Bob Allen 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT HIGHER EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL INC
Joyce Childs 2015 Director $0 $0 NORWICH HOUSING CORP
Creigh Moffatt 2015 Vice President $0 $0 NORWICH HOUSING CORP
William Burke 2014 Director $0 $0 MANCHESTER COUNTRY CLUB INC
Colleen Connor 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Paula Howes 2015 President $0 $0 NORWICH HOUSING CORP
Peter Dueppengiesser 2016 Director $0 $0 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Michael Plageman 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Jorge Martin 2016 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Vicki Upham 2015 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF-ADVOCATES INC
Michael Keller 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Lehana Guyette 2015 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF-ADVOCATES INC
Debra Shepard 2016 Director $0 $0 WATCH THEM GROW CHILDCARE CENTER
Kerri Gandin 2016 Director $0 $0 WATCH THEM GROW CHILDCARE CENTER
Jarkie Swantak 2016 Director $0 $0 WATCH THEM GROW CHILDCARE CENTER
Tracie Longto 2016 Secretary $0 $0 WATCH THEM GROW CHILDCARE CENTER
Hannah Leland 2016 Vice President $0 $0 WATCH THEM GROW CHILDCARE CENTER
Molly Dugan-Sulivan 2016 President $0 $0 WATCH THEM GROW CHILDCARE CENTER
Scotty Mcgee 2014 Director $0 $0 CROSS COUNTRY SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION
Elizabeth Harris-Warner 2016 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTSINC
Greg Morgan 2016 Director $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB CHARITIES OF ESSEX VERMONT INC
Pat Spielman 2016 Director $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB CHARITIES OF ESSEX VERMONT INC
Jeff Cabanaw 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB CHARITIES OF ESSEX VERMONT INC
Trish Porter 2016 President El $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB CHARITIES OF ESSEX VERMONT INC
Sharon Dettenrieder 2016 President $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB CHARITIES OF ESSEX VERMONT 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.