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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Chris Theofanidis 2015 Trustee $0 $0 YELLOW BARN INC
John Leppman 2015 Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0 YELLOW BARN INC
Peter Axilrod 2015 Director $0 $0 YELLOW BARN INC
Catherine Stephan 2015 Executive Director $0 $0 YELLOW BARN INC
Gary Clark 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 VERMONT ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION INC
Andrew Macwilliam 2015 Chairman $0 $0 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Jacob Smith 2016 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN VERMONT BOARD OF REALTORS INC
Ken Galton 2016 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC
Steve Hambsch 2016 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC
Skip Mckee 2016 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC
Erin Quicker 2016 Secretary $0 $0 WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC
Mike Hickey 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT STATE AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOC
Nancy Simcox 2016 Director $0 $0 INFORMED GREEN SOLUTIONS INC
Leslie Gensburg 2016 Director $0 $0 INFORMED GREEN SOLUTIONS INC
Annie S Sarnbiad 2015 Director $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
Frank Cody Cpa 2016 Chair $0 $0 VSCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
James A Stewart Md 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CANCER RESEARCH ORGANIZATION INC
Silvia C Formenti Md 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CANCER RESEARCH ORGANIZATION INC
Rosemary Mackey 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CANCER RESEARCH ORGANIZATION INC
John Cioffi 2015 President $0 $0 VERMONT STATE AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOC
William L Bitner Iii Phd 2016 President $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CANCER RESEARCH ORGANIZATION INC
Louis M Weiner Md 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CANCER RESEARCH ORGANIZATION INC
Jerome W Yates Md Mph 2016 Vice President $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CANCER RESEARCH ORGANIZATION INC
Suzanne Anair 2016 Alternate Di $0 $0 VERMONT HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION INC
Jennifer Combs-Wilber 2016 Alternate Di $0 $0 VERMONT HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION 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.