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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Dave Ross 2014 Director $0 $0 BETHANY BIRCHES CAMP INC
Walt Dryer 2014 Historian $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION CLUB
Polly Parsons 2016 Trustee $0 $0 UNIVERSITY MEDICAL EDUCATION
Carol Wilson 2016 Board Member - Strafford $0 $0 SOUTH ROYALTON AREA SENIOR CITIZENS
Jim Verzino 2016 Vice President $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Catherine Bergmann 2014 Director $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Alec Beck 2016 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Norma Vincent 2016 Board Member - Sharon $0 $0 SOUTH ROYALTON AREA SENIOR CITIZENS
Hannah Nadeau 2014 Parent Director $0 $0 THE CHILD CARE CENTER IN NORWICH INC
Ann Cummins 2015 1St Vice Chair/Treasurer $0 $0 NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF VERMONT INC
Todd Keating 2016 Trustee $0 $0 UNIVERSITY MEDICAL EDUCATION
Mary Ayer 2016 Board Member - Sharon $0 $0 SOUTH ROYALTON AREA SENIOR CITIZENS
Michelle Bos-Lun 2015 Secretary $0 $0 NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF VERMONT INC
William Karstens Phd 2014 Director $0 $0 STEM CHALLENGE INITIATIVE
Carroll Ketchem 2016 Board Member - Bethel $0 $0 SOUTH ROYALTON AREA SENIOR CITIZENS
Katharine Crane 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF VERMONT INC
Betty Keller 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF VERMONT INC
Sandy Pomeroy 2014 Sccretary/Director $0 $0 OUR COURT
Robert Gaiko 2016 Board Member - Bethel $0 $0 SOUTH ROYALTON AREA SENIOR CITIZENS
Jon Cheney 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY SNO PACKERS INC
Rosemary Miller 2014 Board Member $0 $0 INTERPLAY JAZZ & ARTS INC
Steven Richard 2014 President $0 $0 VERMONT ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION INC
Joe Perras Md 2015 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
James O'Malley 2014 Vice President $0 $0 COVERED BRIDGE THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES INC
Eileen Whalen 2015 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS 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.