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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Patrick Crotty 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES
Jerry Osterman 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 HOME SHARE NOW
John Pierce 2016 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT FEDERATION OF FAMILIES FOR CHILDRENS MENTAL HEALTH
Werner Heidemann 2014 Vice Chair $0 $0 GILMAN HOUSING TRUST INC
Pat Mcdonald 2014 Director $0 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Chuck Myers 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT INC
Michael Mercadante 2014 Loyal Knight $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Clarence Davis 2014 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Janet Wilson 2016 President $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES
Jason Butler 2016 Vice President $0 $0 MISSISQUOI AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSO INC
Raymond St Pierre 2015 President $0 $0 COLCHESTER HOCKEY BOOSTERS ASSOC INC
Ralph Ford 2015 President $0 $0 CLARENDON FIRE ASSN INC
Karen Fortin 2016 Secretary $0 $0 MISSISQUOI AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSO INC
James Todd 2015 Vice Pres $0 $0 CLARENDON FIRE ASSN INC
Jamie Baker 2015 Secretary $0 $0 CLARENDON FIRE ASSN INC
Christopher Hackett 2016 Vice President $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES
Matt Jakubowsk 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 CLARENDON FIRE ASSN INC
John T Hango 2015 Past President $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Rob Flanders 2015 Chief $0 $0 CLARENDON FIRE ASSN INC
Benjamin Deppman 2016 President $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Billy Austin 2015 Lto $0 $0 CLARENDON FIRE ASSN INC
John Daniell 2016 Director $0 $0 MAD RIVER VALLEY TELEVISION INC
Tuck Rawls 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Doug Disabito 2015 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN ISLANDERS DEVELOPING ESSENTIAL RESOURCES
Sue Wade 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 ST ALBANS FREE LIBRARY

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.