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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Ellen Smith 2016 Director $0 $0 GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC
Bill Neukomm 2015 Executive Direc $0 $0 COVER HOME REPAIR INC
Michele Gatto 2014 Past Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Marilyn Hart Md 2014 Board $0 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK INC
Peter West 2014 Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Josh Traeger 2016 Director $0 $0 GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC
Anna Benvenuto 2015 Secretary $0 $0 WOMENSAFE INC
Paul Heffernan 2014 Director $0 $0 BROMLEY OUTING CLUB INC
Peter Ashenden 2015 Board Member $0 $0 COPELAND CENTER FOR WELLNESS AND RECOVERY INCORPORATED
Stacey Colegrove 2016 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL INC
Jim Feinson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 RICHMOND LAND TRUST
Shirley Fenner 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC
Aaron Tucker 2016 Commander $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
George Palsham 2016 2Nd Vice Commander $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Cynsie Broda 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC
Charles Munger 2016 Finance Officer $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Bob Gearwar 2016 Sergeant At Arms $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Ron Poe 2014 Vice President $0 $0 AREA RESOURCE FOR INDIVIDUALIZED SERVICES INC
Michael Bourne 2014 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Jennifer Davey 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COVERTS
Kathy Mchugh 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC
Perez Ehrich 2015 Trustee $0 $0 MAPLE STREET FOUNDATION INC
Sarah Weber 2015 Trustee $0 $0 MAPLE STREET FOUNDATION INC
Thomas Zopf 2016 Director $0 $0 GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC
Anne Archer 2015 Trustee $0 $0 MAPLE STREET FOUNDATION 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.