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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Tom Stone 2016 Historian $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Ann Macdonald 2016 Director $0 $0 LATCHIS ARTS INC
Edie Sawitsky 2015 Director $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Michael Harrington 2015 Director $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Gordan Hayward 2016 President $0 $0 LATCHIS ARTS INC
Ted Bird 2015 Director $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Beth Wilwol 2015 Secretary $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Shannon Tracy 2015 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF WINDHAM COUNTY
Jennifer Latham 2016 Vice President $0 $0 LATCHIS ARTS INC
Kelly Clarke 2015 Director $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Kate Stein 2014 Secretary $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
John Canning 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Keith Carey 2015 Director $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Brian Cote 2016 Vice-President $0 $0 UNIVERSITY MEDICAL EDUCATION
Maggie Cassidy 2016 Secretary $0 $0 LATCHIS ARTS INC
David Woodward 2016 Finance Officer $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Fred Osborne 2014 Chairman $0 $0 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
Robert Reynolds Sr 2016 Service Officer $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Marty Ramsburg 2016 Director $0 $0 LATCHIS ARTS INC
Eric Louttit 2015 Director $0 $0 RECOVERY HOUSE INC
Sally Young 2014 Vice President $0 $0 PASSUMPSIC VIEW INC
David Allaire 2015 Secretary $0 $0 RECOVERY HOUSE INC
Riley Goodemote 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 LATCHIS ARTS INC
Warren Smith - Renny 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC
Ray Sapp 2014 Past President $0 $0 VERMONT RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION

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.