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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Shawn Kerivan 2016 Chairman $0 $0 STOWE STORY LABS
William Rowe 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LUND FAMILY CENTER INC
Mary Barrosse-Schwartz 2014 Council Memb $0 $0 BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE COUNCIL INC
Calvin Dame 2014 Director $0 $0 NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLHOUSE OF BRATTLEBORO INC
Becky Rourke 2013 Director $0 $0 MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES SUPPORTING EDUCATION
Steven Whritner 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 STOWE STORY LABS
Matthew Samuelson 2014 President $0 $0 MAPLE STREET FOUNDATION INC
Noah Hoskins-Forsythe 2016 Trustee (Thru 6/30/17) $0 $0 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Jeffrey Berquist 2014 Trustee $0 $0 MACLURE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC
Bree Benjamin 2015 Director $0 $0 THE BELLWETHER SCHOOL AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC
Mary Longey 2016 Co-Secretary $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC
Dan Brush 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND
Dora Greven 2016 President $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC
Deborah Mcdowell 2015 Board Member $0 $0 TRINITY CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Katrina Meyers 2015 Chair $0 $0 TRINITY CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Ellen Parks 2016 Board Member $0 $0 STOWE STORY LABS
Jen Hurley 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 TRINITY CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Kevin Cummings 2016 Vice President $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC
Robert Caron 2016 Board Member - Royalton $0 $0 SOUTH ROYALTON AREA SENIOR CITIZENS
Michael Briggs 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT-NEW HAMPSHIRE MARKETING GROUP INC
Tom Noble 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC
Win Johnson 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 FOUR WINDS NATURE INSTITUTEINCORPORATED
Maria Horton 2015 Board Member $0 $0 TRINITY CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Erica Dean 2016 Director $0 $0 STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC
Eileen Corcoran 2016 Director $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC

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.