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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Robert Silverstein 2016 Vice President $0 $0 NETWORKS INC
Heidi Slayton 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 MILTON FAMILY COMMUNITY CENTER INC
Greta Brunswick 2016 President $0 $0 MAPLE LEAF MONTESSORI
Anna Cadmus 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 MILTON FAMILY COMMUNITY CENTER INC
Morgan Williams 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 MAPLE LEAF MONTESSORI
Rebecca Howrigan 2016 Secretary $0 $0 MAPLE LEAF MONTESSORI
Ted Smyth 2014 Director $0 $0 MARLBORO COLLEGE
Clare Munat Emeritus 2014 Board Member $0 $0 NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF VERMONT INC
Lynn P Shepard 2014 Jr Vice Commander $0 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Audrey Osman 2016 Secretary $0 $0 MILTON FAMILY COMMUNITY CENTER INC
Bill Koch 2016 Chair $0 $0 BARRE OPERA HOUSE INC
Joe Preddy 2016 Vice-Chair $0 $0 BARRE OPERA HOUSE INC
Jason Heath 2016 Director $0 $0 MILTON FAMILY COMMUNITY CENTER INC
Patty Meriam 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BARRE OPERA HOUSE INC
Peter Squires 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Jan Katz Until 11415 2014 Director $0 $0 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
Gregory Prince Phd 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC
Tracy Sichling 2016 Loyal Knight $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
David Mount 2016 Vice President $0 $0 NETWORKS INC
Nate Houghton 2014 Chairman Of Board $0 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Anne G Bugbee Term Ended 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
David Sunshine 2016 Vice President $0 $0 NETWORKS INC
Paul Laffal 2014 Vice President $0 $0 ISRAEL CENTER OF VERMONT INC
Mary Anne Sjoblom 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Lucia Campriello 2016 Vice President $0 $0 NETWORKS 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.