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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Mary Young 2016 President $0 $0 WELLSPRING INSTITUTE INC
Garland Tucker 2014 Trustee $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Jim Henderson 2016 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND TROPICAL CONSERVATORY INC
Tim Ashe 2015 Board Member $0 $0 THE HOUSING FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
Casey Hunt 2016 Director $0 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
Amy Halstad 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND TROPICAL CONSERVATORY INC
Merryn Rutledge 2015 Board Member $0 $0 THE HOUSING FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
Tim Palmer 2015 Executive Di $0 $0 THE HOUSING FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
Meg Kuhner 2014 Ex Officio $0 $0 CIRCLE INC
Anthony Aldrich 2016 Trustee $0 $0 ASCUTNEY VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSOCIATION INC
Jeff Greene 2015 Vice President $0 $0 LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC
Courtney Callo 2016 Director $0 $0 MANCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Mary Mcbryde 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Kenneth C Kowalewitz 2016 President $0 $0 SOUTH HERO LIBRARY FOUNDATION
Mary Kinney 2015 Director $0 $0 LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC
Lucy Abair 2016 Trustee $0 $0 LUND FAMILY CENTER INC
Maria Arnold 2016 Member At Large $0 $0 LUND FAMILY CENTER INC
Shawn Dusablon 2015 Vice President $0 $0 LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC
Sharon Bixby 2015 Board Member $0 $0 OKEMO VALLEY TV CORP
Melissa Hood 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 SOUTH HERO LIBRARY FOUNDATION
Jessica Brumsted 2016 Trustee $0 $0 LUND FAMILY CENTER INC
Roger Croswell 2015 Board Member $0 $0 OKEMO VALLEY TV CORP
Jamie Ward 2015 Board Member $0 $0 OKEMO VALLEY TV CORP
Sara Byers 2016 Immediate Past President $0 $0 LUND FAMILY CENTER INC
Lou Krefski 2015 Board Member $0 $0 OKEMO VALLEY TV CORP

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.