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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Amanda Higgins 2014 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Connie Blatchford 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 THE DORSET EQUINE RESCUE INC
Lew Teich 2016 Trustee $0 $0 RESCUE INC
Barbara Mieder 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Suzanne Mantegna 2014 Member $0 $0 VERMONT COMMONS SCHOOL
Donna Stout 2016 Hon Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Mr Bernier L Mayo 2015 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Mike Wood 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 RUTLAND AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Kristin Chandler 2016 Secretary $0 $0 CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
Cindy Arsenault 2016 Representati $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Louise Ferris Burt 2016 Assistant Tr $0 $0 CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
David Johnson 2016 Representati $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Ron Wold 2016 Director $0 $0 CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
Kathy Spear 2016 Director $0 $0 CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
Michael Penrod 2016 Director $0 $0 CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
Corey Kendall 2015 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Mario B Hankerson 2016 Director $0 $0 CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
Ellen Shepheard 2016 Director $0 $0 CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
Sharon Rives 2016 Director $0 $0 CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
M Beth Davis 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 SHELDON ART MUSEUM ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Suzanne Stanway 2015 Secretary $0 $0 SHELDON ART MUSEUM ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Peg Bruce 2016 Representati $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Jason Tiballi 2016 Co-Chair $0 $0 HOPE WORKS INC
Charles Kettles 2016 Representati $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Megan Camp 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT 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.