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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kate Mccabe 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT RIVER CONSERVANCY INC
Jim Powers 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT RIVER CONSERVANCY INC
Mike Woodfield 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 VERMONT RIVER CONSERVANCY INC
Joan Shannon 2013 Vice President $0 $0 BURLINGTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP
Sabrina Morrison 2015 Secretary $0 $0 GREENSBORO COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER
Tara Williamson 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 GREENSBORO COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER
Kim Peine 2016 Secretary-Treasurer $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN LIBRARY CONSORTIUM
Jessi Farnsworth Deboer 2016 Board Member $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Fj Bartlett 2016 Board Member $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Michele Newton 2016 Board Member $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Heather Goodale 2016 Board Member $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Ben Esser-Calvi 2016 President $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Bree Benjamin 2014 Vice-Preside $0 $0 THE BELLWETHER SCHOOL AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC
Trish Dougherty 2016 Vice President $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Michael Keane 2015 Director $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Erin Desautels Resigned 2016 Director $0 $0 HOPE WORKS INC
Brenda Christie 2016 Secretary $0 $0 LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC
Mr John Roskopf 2016 Assistant Treasurer $0 $40,339 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Ms Mary Ellen Moriarty 2016 Vice President $0 $51,866 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Mr Stephen L Garwood 2016 Treasurer $0 $76,086 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Lu Putnam 2016 Hon Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Kevin D'Arcy 2015 Director $0 $0 SPRUCE PEAK ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC
Michele Palmer 2015 Vice President $0 $0 SHELBURNE NURSERY SCHOOL
Matthew Derr 2016 Secretary $0 $0 THE CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY
Melinda Humphrey 2015 Secretary $0 $0 RUTLAND AMATEUR HOCKEY 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.