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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
John Lanctot 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 POORE FAMILY FOUNDATION FOR NORTH COUNTRY CONSERVANCY
Larry Cayia 2014 Northern Area $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Donald Desacia 2016 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION
Mark Winer 2016 President $0 $0 POORE FAMILY FOUNDATION FOR NORTH COUNTRY CONSERVANCY
Kellan Partridge 2015 Vice President $0 $0 GREENSBORO COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER
Carla Smalling 2014 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Blake Johnsen 2016 Director $0 $0 POORE FAMILY FOUNDATION FOR NORTH COUNTRY CONSERVANCY
John Lentine 2016 Director $0 $0 DRAGONHEART VERMONT INCORPORATED
Scott Moore 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 CAMP EXCLAMATION POINT INC
Connie Kent 2015 Director $0 $0 PRESERVATION BURLINGTON INC
John Helfant 2016 Director - Trp D $0 $0 VERMONT TROOPERS ASSOCIATION INC
Dena Davis 2014 Director $0 $0 MARLBORO COLLEGE
Julie Stevenson 2014 Parent Director $0 $0 THE CHILD CARE CENTER IN NORWICH INC
Patricia Moulton 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
Lora Chatfield 2014 President $0 $0 HELP-KIDS-INDIA INC
Roger Leeds 2014 Director $0 $0 MANCHESTER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Jason Richardson 2016 Chief Operating Officer $0 $0 FAMILIES FIRST IN SOUTHERN VERMONT INC
Christopher Mcgrory-Klyza 2016 Secretary - Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY FORESTS INC
Noreen Hopkins 2015 Director $0 $0 GREENSBORO COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER
Linda Tillotson 2016 Director $0 $0 POORE FAMILY FOUNDATION FOR NORTH COUNTRY CONSERVANCY
Owen J Stearns 2015 Secretary $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Douglass Ball 2016 Vice President $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION
Edward And Chip Evarts 2016 Directors $0 $0 POORE FAMILY FOUNDATION FOR NORTH COUNTRY CONSERVANCY
Sharon Morris 2016 Director $0 $0 DRAGONHEART VERMONT INCORPORATED
Dennis Wilder 2014 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT VET TO VET 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.