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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kathy King 2013 Chairperson Supervisory $0 $0 MEMBERS 1ST CREDIT UNION
James B Reynolds Cpa 2014 Treasurer/Chair Elect $0 $0 VSCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Kalia Lydgate 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 VERMONT WILDERNESS SCHOOL INC
Midhat Hadzic 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS INC
Amy Seidl 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC
Mary T O'Brien 2014 Secretary $0 $0 WINDSOR GOOD NEWS ELECTRONICS RECYCLING EDUCATION CORPORATION
Tom Slayton 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC
Thy Yang 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS INC
Gerald Tarrant 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC
Eric Zencey 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC
Emily Lopuski 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT-NEW HAMPSHIRE MARKETING GROUP INC
Joseph Wilson 2016 District Governor $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Lauren Dees-Erickson 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS INC
Judith Hyde 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT WILDERNESS SCHOOL INC
Steve M Gold 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Laura Coberly 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS INC
Larry Clark 2015 Director $0 $0 OUR PLACE DROP-IN CENTER
Frank Mazza 2014 Vice-Chair $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY TRANSIT RESOURCES
Todd Hjelt 2016 Trustee $0 $0 DORSET PLAYERS INC
Frederick Morin Iii 2016 Chair & President $0 $7,190 UNIVERSITY MEDICAL EDUCATION
Jeannie Jenkins 2015 Past President $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Patricia Preston 2016 Executive Director $0 $4,504 VERMONT COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS INC
Jason Morris 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT WILDERNESS SCHOOL INC
Shelley Colvin 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Eric Peterson 2015 Vice President $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION

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.