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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Amen Teter 2014 Director $0 $0 HANNAHS GOLD FOUNDATION
Ron Nichos 2016 Trustee $0 $0 RESCUE INC
Kerri Johnson 2016 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC
Linda Siegel 2016 President $0 $0 FRIENDS OF WATERBURY LIBRARY
Sue Sherman 2015 Director $0 $0 GIFFORD HEALTH CARE INC
Sheila Jacobs 2015 Director $0 $0 GIFFORD HEALTH CARE INC
Michelle Baker 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 FRIENDS OF WATERBURY LIBRARY
Erin Sigrist 2016 President: 1/1/17 - 4/30/17 $0 $0 VERMONT RETAIL AND GROCERS ASSOCIATION INC
John Dubie 2016 Vice Chair - Membership $0 $0 VERMONT RETAIL AND GROCERS ASSOCIATION INC
Deb Brighton 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY FORESTS INC
Lila Hamel 2016 Secretary $0 $0 FRIENDS OF WATERBURY LIBRARY
Kathlyn Degraff 2015 President $0 $0 SHELDON ART MUSEUM ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Cynthia Stoldt 2017 Board Member $0 $0 BETASAB
Dixie Bolio 2016 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC
Pamela Parsons 2017 President $0 $17,346 CHC2012 INC
Joyce Judy 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT HIGHER EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL INC
Michael Hill 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Cajsa Schumacher 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC
Robert Kenny 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT HIGHER EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL INC
Ramsey Papp 2016 Director $0 $0 CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
Paul J Fonteyn 2015 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT HIGHER EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL INC
Stuart Hurd 2015 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Janet Watton 2016 President $0 $0 CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
Marda Donner 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
Joseph L Woodin 2014 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS 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.