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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Robyn Giragosian 2014 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND HEAD START ASSOCIATION
Shannon Mclenithan 2016 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
James Gallagher 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Alan Calfee 2016 President $0 $0 VERMONT COVERTS
Brent Truchon 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SHAMROCKS INC
Cameron Miller 2014 Board Member $0 $0 UMBRELLA OF ST JOHNSBURY INC
Lea Cook 2015 Board Of Directors $0 $0 ORLEANS-ESSEX VNA & HOSPICE INC
Elinor Levy 2014 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Elaine Nichols 2014 Vice Chair $0 $0 LAMOILLE AREA HOUSING CORPORATION THE
Maru Leon 2016 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Nancy Putnam 2014 Chair $0 $0 LAMOILLE AREA HOUSING CORPORATION THE
Willa Farrell 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LAMOILLE AREA HOUSING CORPORATION THE
Helene Lang 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Ursula Margazano 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION INC
George Schenk 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FOODBANK
Damian Blouin Sons Of The Legion 2016 Finance Offi $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Mary Leahy 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Linda Phypers 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 VERMONT HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION INC
Judy Morton 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION INC
Matt Wiley 2016 Vice President $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Richard Morley 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION INC
Mark A Macdonald 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Tom Dailey 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Donald Miller 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Alfred Blum 2016 Chair $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY

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.