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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Walter Blasberg 2014 Secretary $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Joe Miller 2014 Director $0 $0 STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC
Mary Fuqua 2016 Secretary $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND TROPICAL CONSERVATORY INC
Nathaniel Hendrie 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT HEALTHCARE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION CENTER INC
Heath Haskell 2014 Director $0 $0 OUR COURT
Jo Jo Toeppner 2014 Chairman $0 $0 CROSS COUNTRY SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION
Karol Diamond 2014 Ex Officio $0 $0 CIRCLE INC
Brian Murphy 2016 Trustee $0 $0 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Raphael Rosner 2017 Board Vice Chair $0 $0 INNER FIRE
Jennifer Dence 2014 Secretary $0 $0 VERDMONT OUTING CLUB
Rick Kenney 2017 President $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN WATER ENVIRONMENT ASSOCIATION
Jj Williams 2016 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND TROPICAL CONSERVATORY INC
Tom Warhol 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WHITE RIVER PARTNERSHIP INC
Laura Simmers 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC
Joyce Cowper 2016 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND TROPICAL CONSERVATORY INC
Stephen Magowan 2015 Vice-Chair $0 $0 VERMONT FOODBANK
Beth Rusnock 2015 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT FOODBANK
Bill Merril 2014 Trustee 3 Yr $0 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Dan Silver 2016 Trustee $0 $0 DORSET PLAYERS INC
Walter Poleman 2016 Chairman Of The Board $0 $0 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Dan Lefkowitz 2014 Director $0 $0 NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLHOUSE OF BRATTLEBORO INC
Karin Grecu 2014 Secretary $0 $0 GREENHILLS SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER CLUB
Martin Lalonde 2014 Chit/Gi Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
John Irons Iii 2016 President $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND TROPICAL CONSERVATORY INC
John Broderick 2014 President $0 $0 HILAND HALL SCHOOL

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.