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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Christopher Oldham Start 3315 2014 Executive Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
Deborah Benson 2016 Chief Of Service $0 $0 GRAND ISLE RESCUE INC
Jill Barber Helmer 2014 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC
Bruce Bullock Md 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERS INC
Sue Wetmore 2014 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY AUDUBON SOCIETY
Joseph Madison 2014 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC
Amy Wright 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Brook Brittell 2016 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM PRESCHOOL AND CHILDCARE CORP
Carrie Rice 2016 Vice President $0 $0 OVERLAKE DAY SCHOOL INC
Deanna S Howard 2015 Dh Representative $0 $65,131 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
James Chandler 2016 Member $0 $0 MONROE PLACE CORPORATION
Robert Hofmann 2014 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT ETV INC
Elizabeth Koenig 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Scott Hutton 2014 Vice-Chairman $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY MEALS PROGRAM
Mary Gerisch 2014 Secretary $0 $0 BENNINGTON COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
Shari Westman 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 OVERLAKE DAY SCHOOL INC
Sara White 2014 President $0 $0 BENNINGTON COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
Dan Jackson 2014 Secretary $0 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
Terri Christie 2014 Parllamentarian $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY
Scott Jenness 2014 President $0 $0 DRIFTDUSTERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC
Lynn Boggs 2014 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Patricia A Casey 2014 Trustee $0 $0 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Desiree Maltais 2016 Training Officer $0 $0 GRAND ISLE RESCUE INC
Peter S Paine 2014 Director $0 $0 CENTER FOR WOODLANDS EDUCATION INC
Alexis Scott 2016 Secretary $0 $0 OVERLAKE DAY SCHOOL 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.