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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Phil Cargill 2014 Director $0 $0 DRIFTDUSTERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC
Erin Buckwalter 2014 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY GARDEN NETWORK INC
Jeremy Hoff 2016 Trustee $0 $0 RICHMOND LAND TRUST
Vicky Swenor 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
David Samuels 2015 Director $0 $0 BROMLEY OUTING CLUB INC
Walter Ducharme 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC
Liz Smith 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC
Justin Gardner 2015 Director $0 $0 BROMLEY OUTING CLUB INC
Sara Ineson 2015 Vice President $0 $0 BROMLEY OUTING CLUB INC
Nare Filipoysan 2016 Trustee (Started 6/2017) $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Scott Bushweller 2015 Director $0 $0 CSB YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Susan Kelley-Harkey 2016 Board Member $0 $0 GRASS ROOTS ART AND COMMUNITY EFFORTS
Jan Hebert 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Debbie Larosa 2014 Vice Preside $0 $0 SARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER
Brian Amones 2014 Director $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT SKATING ASSOCIATION
Mary Rajda 2014 Board Member $0 $0 HOMELESS PREVENTION CENTER
Melissa Lascelles 2014 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS PARENT CHILD CENTER
John Graf 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL INC
Dawn Carey-Smith 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Owen Banks 2015 Vice President $0 $0 CSB YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Glen Griesser 2015 Director $0 $0 CSB YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
John Evans 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COVERTS
John Servin 2015 Director $0 $0 CSB YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Tricia Phillips 2015 Director $0 $0 CSB YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Sandra Dalton Felis 2014 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS 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.