Vermont Nonprofit Navigator
Explore the organizations and people that power Vermont's $6.8 billion nonprofit economy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Coolidge Term Ended | 2016 | Trustee | $0 | $0 | VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY |
| Karina Warshaw | 2015 | Secretary | $0 | $0 | NEW MORAN INC |
| Frank Bryan Term Ended | 2016 | Trustee | $0 | $0 | VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY |
| Kelly Pawlak | 2015 | Chair | $0 | $0 | VERMONT SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION INC |
| William Graham | 2015 | Sargent At A | $0 | $0 | AMERICAN LEGION CLUB NEWPORT-21 INC |
| Loreen Teer | 2014 | Cabinet Treasurer | $0 | $100 | INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS |
| Pamela Nichols | 2014 | 1St Vice District Governor | $0 | $1,000 | INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS |
| Kathy Demars | 2016 | Trustee | $0 | $0 | LAMOILLE AREA HOUSING CORPORATION THE |
| John Mejia | 2016 | Secretary | $0 | $0 | VERMONT COVERTS |
| Michele Burgess | 2014 | Trustee | $0 | $0 | BENNINGTON COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS |
| Erik Esseltyn | 2014 | Director | $0 | $0 | SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE INC |
| Fran Gross | 2015 | Director | $0 | $0 | VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC |
| Paul Gallo | 2015 | Vice President | $0 | $0 | PARAMOUNT CENTER INC |
| Elaine Lolson | 2016 | Assistant Treasurer | $0 | $8,908 | THE WOODSTOCK FOUNDATION INC |
| Carl Szlachetka | 2016 | Vice Chair | $0 | $0 | LAMOILLE AREA HOUSING CORPORATION THE |
| Ed Bracey | 2016 | Tiler | $0 | $0 | BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA |
| David Bruley | 2016 | Chaplain | $0 | $0 | BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA |
| Steve Kerstein | 2016 | President | $0 | $0 | STRATTON MOUNTAIN & VALLEY COMMUNITY BENEFIT FOUNDATION |
| Dan Facilla | 2016 | President | $0 | $0 | HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC |
| Jonathan Klein | 2016 | Secretary | $0 | $0 | STRATTON MOUNTAIN & VALLEY COMMUNITY BENEFIT FOUNDATION |
| Walter Frame | 2016 | Treasurer | $0 | $0 | LAMOILLE AREA HOUSING CORPORATION THE |
| Gretchen Fagge | 2016 | Vice President | $0 | $0 | HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC |
| Sharon Green | 2016 | Secretary | $0 | $0 | LAMOILLE AREA HOUSING CORPORATION THE |
| Michele Sullivan-Dubois | 2015 | Member | $0 | $0 | COPLEY HOUSE INC |
| Ted Lambert | 2015 | Member | $0 | $0 | COPLEY HOUSE 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.