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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jason Posternak 2014 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO SUNRISE FOUNDATION INC
Maggie Rafter 2014 $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY COURT DIVERSION AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER INC
Betsy Franzoni 2014 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND WEST NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC
John Findley 2014 Director/Personnel $0 $0 DARLING INN SENIOR MEAL SITE INC
Jonathan Schwartz 2016 Director $0 $0 LATCHIS ARTS INC
Patricia Hunter 2014 Trustee $0 $0 RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC T-A RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY
Kenneth Coonradt 2016 Chaplain $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Anne Latchis 2016 Director $0 $0 LATCHIS ARTS INC
Rob Anderegg 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 SHARON ACADEMY
Brad Atwood 2015 President $0 $0 SHARON ACADEMY
Joey Morgan 2016 Director $0 $0 LATCHIS ARTS INC
John Roe 2015 Vice President $0 $0 SHARON ACADEMY
Todd Binzen 2015 Trustee $0 $0 SHARON ACADEMY
Willa Farrell 2014 Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
James Gelter 2016 Director $0 $0 LATCHIS ARTS INC
Michele Blanchard 2015 Trustee $0 $0 SHARON ACADEMY
Phil Lovely 2014 Director $0 $0 WONDER & WISDOM INC
Stephen Farrington 2015 Trustee $0 $0 SHARON ACADEMY
Helen Beattie 2014 Former Director $0 $0 WONDER & WISDOM INC
Becky Bergman 2015 Board Of Director $0 $0 ARC RUTLAND AREA INC
Michael Stuart 2014 Former Treas. $0 $0 WONDER & WISDOM INC
Lewis First 2016 Trustee $0 $0 UNIVERSITY MEDICAL EDUCATION
Sam Drazin 2015 Trustee $0 $0 SHARON ACADEMY
William Booker 2016 Chair $0 $0 BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC
John Steel 2014 Past Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY WOODLANDS 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.