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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Mr Jeffrey Straits 2016 Director $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Dr Jake Schrum 2016 Director $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Dr Sandra Harper 2016 Director $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Ms Janet Hanson 2016 Director $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Dr Kenneth Garren 2016 Director $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Mr Jeffery Wolf 2016 Director $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Dr Jennifer Braaten- Termed 7116 2016 Director $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Mr Kenneth Westphal- Termed 7116 2016 Director $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Mrs Siri S Gadbois 2016 President/Director $0 $87,885 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Victor Stone 2016 Grand Master $0 $0 FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF VERMONT
Stuard Corcell 2016 Depty Gr Master $0 $0 FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF VERMONT
Dave Schneider 2016 Hon Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Tom Gravelin 2016 Deputy Grand $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Patrick Lowkes 2015 President $0 $0 RUTLAND AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Darlene Wideawake 2015 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Don Ritchie 2016 Vice Chairma $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Alice Bennett 2016 Secretary $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Barbara Miller 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MEETING HOUSE HILL CEMETERY CO INC C/O J A SCOTT
Barry Pius 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION INC
Bill Cairns 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION INC
Dan Shepard 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 HOPE WORKS INC
Mark Richards 2017 Trustee Emeriti $0 $0 MEETING HOUSE HILL CEMETERY CO INC C/O J A SCOTT
Thiei Martha Machar 2016 Director $0 $0 ASSOCIATION OF AFRICANS LIVING IN VERMONT
Dilli Dulal 2016 Director $0 $0 ASSOCIATION OF AFRICANS LIVING IN VERMONT
Richard Griffith 2015 Director $0 $0 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF THE RUTLAND REGION 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.