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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Norm Akley 2016 Board $0 $0 VERMONT GRANITE MUSEUM OF BARRE INC
Bob Hammerl 2015 Vice Presidentsecretary $0 $0 ONION RIVER COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA INC
Sarah Sabatino 2016 Vice President $0 $0 NORWICH NURSERY SCHOOL INC
Paul Hutchins 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT GRANITE MUSEUM OF BARRE INC
Karen Paquin 2016 Board Member $0 $0 COMMON ROOTS INC
Heather Jarvis 2014 Vice President $0 $0 HOME SHARE NOW
Chris Mahstoll 2016 Board Member $0 $0 COMMON ROOTS INC
Michael Curtis 2015 Board Vice-President $0 $0 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Ellen Stanley 2015 President $0 $0 NORTH EAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Michael P Mcglynn 2015 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
James Brower 2015 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Jim Chourchesne 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTH EAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Mari Schaarschmidt 2015 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Mediha Jusufagic 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER
Sarah Clarke 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 THETFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Milner Noble 2016 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC
Nancy Lewis 2016 President $0 $0 FLOW OF HISTORY INC
Joe Poston 2016 President $0 $0 ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF VERMONT INC
Lisa Shelkrot 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC
Brian Harwood 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ETV INC
Raymond Beaudry 2014 Executive Director $0 $0 COVERED BRIDGE THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES INC
Patricia Aigner 2014 Director $0 $0 VT INFO TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING
Catherine Conley 2015 Administrator $0 $0 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Ed Nelbach 2014 Director $0 $0 GREATER RANDOLPH SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER INC
Donald S Lukes 2016 Director $0 $39,080 OLD CRESCENT INSURANCE COMPANY

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.