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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Steve Keene 2016 Director $0 $0 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Brenda Spafford 2016 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION
Erin Salcone 2014 Co-President $0 $0 THE CHILD CARE CENTER IN NORWICH INC
Darcie Mccann 2014 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM TRAVEL & TOURISM ASSOCIATION
Onita Connington 2015 Director $0 $0 NORWICH HOUSING CORP
Clifford Rankiin 2014 Director $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Stephen Sarsfield 2014 Director, Risk Mgmt $0 $25,929 PROMEDICA INDEMNITY INSURANCE CORPORATION
Kevin Quigly 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT HIGHER EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL INC
Lori Mcclallen 2014 Secretary $0 $0 SUMMIT FUTBOL CLUB
Ron Lafountain 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Susan Spademan 2015 Secretary $0 $0 NORWICH HOUSING CORP
Patricia Greene 2015 Director $0 $0 NORWICH HOUSING CORP
Mary Lafountain 2014 Director $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Ashar Nelson 2016 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Catherine M Mcclure 2016 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION
Sara Byers 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Chris Goddard 2016 Recorder $0 $0 SHRINERS INTERNATIONAL
Laurie Patton 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT HIGHER EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL INC
Sarah Morris 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Eamon Delglacco 2015 Director $0 $0 QUARRY HILL SCHOOL INC
Faith Gong 2015 Board Member $0 $0 QUARRY HILL SCHOOL INC
Laurie Metcalfe 2016 Executive Di $0 $0 NORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL INC
Richard Scaldini 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT HIGHER EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL INC
Stephanie Mapes 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Heather Holter 2015 Board Chair $0 $0 EARTHWALK VERMONT

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.