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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jim Reardon 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Jennifer Argenti 2016 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Christopher J Plumpton Cpa 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VSCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Matt Swett 2016 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Gwen E Flewelling Cpa 2016 Director $0 $0 VSCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Amy Redpath 2016 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Tara Francis 2015 Director $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
Jamie Horton 2016 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Susan B Hughes Cpa 2016 Director $0 $0 VSCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Jim Adler 2016 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
John Connell 2016 Secretary $0 $0 LARAWAY YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES
Beatrice Edgar 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Terry Kellogg 2016 Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Deb Choma 2016 Res Care Alt $0 $0 VERMONT HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION INC
Katy Robbins Ritz 2015 Director $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
Coleen Kohaut 2016 Alternate Di $0 $0 VERMONT HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION INC
Kyle Senesac 2016 Member $0 $0 LARAWAY YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES
Tom Depoy 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION INC
Anne Smith 2016 President $0 $0 LARAWAY YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES
Deb Lemery 2016 Alternate Di $0 $0 VERMONT HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION INC
Kris Stone 2015 Director $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
Chris Scott 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION INC
Matthew Baughman 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 LARAWAY YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES
Barry R Freedman 2013 President/Director $0 $793,582 BROADLINE RISK RETENTION GROUP INC
Emma Marvin 2016 Member $0 $0 LARAWAY YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES

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.