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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Deb Mcaneny End 22916 2015 Director/Ex Officio/Univ Chair $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Ron Qugley 2015 Trustee $0 $0 DORSET THEATRE FESTIVAL
Mary Dove Herrera 2016 Director $0 $0 MAPLE LEAF MONTESSORI
Mary Anne Van Degna 2015 Trustee $0 $0 DORSET THEATRE FESTIVAL
Tasha Dickinson 2016 Director $0 $0 MAPLE LEAF MONTESSORI
Jane Korey 2016 Director $0 $0 GLOBAL CAMPUSES FOUNDATION
John Nicholls 2016 Vice President $0 $0 MAPLE LEAF MONTESSORI
Norm Bartlett 2016 Trustee $0 $0 RESCUE INC
The Right Reverend Thomas Clark Ely 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Ashley Miller 2016 Director $0 $0 HIGH HORSES THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM
Laura Roth Naylor 2016 Vp/Director $0 $0 THE YWCA OF VERMONT INC
Michele Kinner 2016 Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Patty Houston 2016 Director $0 $0 THE YWCA OF VERMONT INC
Jeff Vigne 2015 President $0 $0 FERRISBURGH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Jennifer Overton 2016 Secretary/Di $0 $0 THE YWCA OF VERMONT INC
Leslie Ward 2016 President $0 $0 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LAB INC
Ken Lemner 2015 Deputy Chief $0 $0 FERRISBURGH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Bruce Story 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LAB INC
Wendy Teller-Elsberg 2014 Parent Director $0 $0 THE CHILD CARE CENTER IN NORWICH INC
Alexander Beck 2016 Trustee $0 $0 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LAB INC
Doug Lewis 2016 Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Ken Lemner 2015 Captin $0 $0 FERRISBURGH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Sona Desai 2014 President $0 $0 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
Jacjacquiline Fischer 2016 Trustee $0 $0 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LAB INC
Alan Tinkler 2016 Trustee $0 $0 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LAB 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.