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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Mac Rood 2017 Director $0 $0 MAD RIVER PATH ASSOCIATION
Robert Bishop 2015 Secretary $0 $0 GILMAN HOUSING TRUST INC
Richard H Saudek 2014 Clerk $0 $0 MARLBORO COLLEGE
Rolf Diamant 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Adam Hubbard 2014 Trustee $0 $0 HILLTOP MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
John Patterson 2014 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER
Peter Seares 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT INDEPENDENT MEDIA INC
Anne Goodrich 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT LONG TERM DISASTER RECOVERY GROUP INC
Maryellen Mendl 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT LONG TERM DISASTER RECOVERY GROUP INC
Guy Rouelle 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT FLIGHT ACADEMY INC
Shakeisha Thomas 2014 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND HEAD START ASSOCIATION
Molly Keefe 2014 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Patrick Lowkes 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 RUTLAND AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Robin Sweetapple 2014 Director $0 $0 LATCHIS ARTS INC
Barry Aleshnick 2016 President $0 $0 VERMONT INDEPENDENT MEDIA INC
Lisa Depalo 2014 Secretary $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY COMMUNITY BAND
Gerald Loeber 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Richard Whitney 2016 Trustee $0 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Lee Ballard 2016 Trustee $0 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Dave Bogdan 2014 Trustee $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Roger Foster 2016 President $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Jane Noyes 2016 Secretary & Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT INDEPENDENT MEDIA INC
James Newell 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL INC
Allyson Myers 2016 Board Member $0 $0 CHARLOTTE DAY CARE CENTER INC
Marilyn Richardson 2016 Board Member $0 $0 CHARLOTTE DAY CARE CENTER 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.