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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Richard J Marek 2016 President $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Marc Z Aaron 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
Ms Kimberly A Silloway 2015 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Rev Thomas F X Hoar Sse 2014 Trustee $0 $0 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Vicky Smith 2014 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
Mary Moulton 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PROGRAM FOR QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE INC
Karl Larson 2014 Judge Advoca $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION POST 19
Randolph D Brock 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Rich Harvie 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PHARMICISTS ASSOCIATION
Shawn M Lyden 2014 Secretary/Exec. Vp $0 $36,242 CHILD DIMENSIONS INSURANCE COMPANY
Ron Worden 2016 Trustee $0 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Carol Fenimore 2014 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
Grace Branon Dmd 2014 President-Elect $0 $0 VERMONT STATE DENTAL SOCIETY
S Crocker Bennett Ii 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Tesha Buss 2016 President $0 $0 LUDLOW AREA ROTARY CHARITABLE FUND INC
Dawn Schneiderman 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Larry Courcelle 2014 Trustee $0 $0 RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC T-A RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY
Jack Lindley 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT PROGRAM FOR QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE INC
Nancy Davenport 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT PREGNANCY SERVICES INC
Roger Allbee 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Brian Boardman Began 121615 2015 Director/Ex Officio $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Sara Gilbert 2014 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Carolyn Branagan 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Penrose Jackson Began 5116 2015 Director/Ex Officio $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Theron Troumbley 2014 Jr. President $0 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES

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.