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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Scott Tucker 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC
Patricia B Wilson 2017 Director $0 $0 JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
Veronica Johnson 2014 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC
Sarwar A Kashmeri 2013 Trustee $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Sara Lussier 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM PRESCHOOL AND CHILDCARE CORP
Linda Monette 2016 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF-ADVOCATES INC
Peter Mallary 2015 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC
Christina Degraf-Murphy 2016 Director $0 $0 CAMPAIGN FOR VERMONT PROSPERITY INC
Mark Ames 2015 Executive Director $0 $0 VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC
John M Beenen 2015 President $0 $0 CORNERSTONE PRESCHOOL INC
Denise Krouse 2016 Secretary $0 $0 LAMOILLE VALLEY FISH & GAME CLUB INC
Delsie Polgar 2016 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF-ADVOCATES INC
Gerrit W Gosliga 2015 Vice-President $0 $0 CORNERSTONE PRESCHOOL INC
Eric L Visser 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 CORNERSTONE PRESCHOOL INC
Douglas Aaron French 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PROGRAM FOR QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE INC
Dan Barnes 2015 Director $0 $0 CORNERSTONE PRESCHOOL INC
Helena Van Voorst 2015 Director $0 $0 CORNERSTONE PRESCHOOL INC
Matthew Maxham 2014 Director $0 $0 BETHANY BIRCHES CAMP INC
Brenda Wilk 2014 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Tesha Thibodeau 2016 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF-ADVOCATES INC
Cinny Bensen 2015 Vice Chair/Trustee $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Jay Benson 2015 Treasurer/Vice Chair $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Matt Reisdorff 2016 Past-President $0 $0 GRAND ISLE RESCUE INC
Brandi Myers 2016 President $0 $0 STARK MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC
Scott Brown 2015 Trustee/Treasurer $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE

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.