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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Patrick Berry 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT LONG TERM DISASTER RECOVERY GROUP INC
Michael Kusner 2017 President $0 $0 GALLOP TO SUCESS
Lynn Green 2016 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Richard Lloyd 2015 Director Ending 6/2016 $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Joseph Kraus 2015 Director/Secretary Beg 4/2016 $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Paul Gallo 2015 Director Beginning 4/2016 $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Mark K Foley 2015 Director Ending 4/2016 $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
John Casella 2015 Vice Chair/Chair Beg 4/2016 $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Melissa Paradee 2014 Secretary $0 $0 THE MENTOR CONNECTOR
Mike Baker 2016 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Kathy Benoit 2017 Secretary/Tr $0 $5,356 CHC2012 INC
Megan Smith 2015 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Cort Jones 2015 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Ellen Shapiro 2015 Board Member $0 $0 OPPORTUNITIES INCORPORATED
Larry Jensen 2015 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
John R Butterly Md 2015 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Chris Hebert 2014 Vice Preside $0 $0 SOUTH BURLINGTON YOUTH BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL INC
Shelly Nemeth 2014 Trustee $0 $0 SUMMIT FUTBOL CLUB
John Redding 2016 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Ducky Donath 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
John O'Connor 2014 Trustee $0 $0 SUMMIT FUTBOL CLUB
Kristyn Rogers 2014 Secretary $0 $0 OWEN HOUSE LTD
Rita Nye 2015 Board Of Directors $0 $0 ORLEANS-ESSEX VNA & HOSPICE INC
Ed Gaudette 2014 Chaplin $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION CLUB
Rosemarie White 2014 Secretary $0 $0 MAD RIVER VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 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.