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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Joan Gignoux 2014 Trustee $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Joe Salas 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION INC
Dawn Mccall 2014 Board $0 $0 MONTPELIER DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
Courtney Callo 2014 Director $0 $0 MANCHESTER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
John Reimers 2016 Director $0 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
Bryan Smith 2014 Board Member $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Zachary Hughes 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PSYCHIATRIC SURVIVORS INC
Matt Bonner 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER
Tom Gluck 2016 Director $0 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
Whitney Nichols 2015 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT PSYCHIATRIC SURVIVORS INC
Benjamin Siracusa Hillman 2013 Trustee $0 $0 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND
Justin W Lilley 2016 Secretary $0 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
Mary Roberts 2015 President $0 $0 VERMONT PSYCHIATRIC SURVIVORS INC
Jonathan Jerome 2015 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT PSYCHIATRIC SURVIVORS INC
Kathy Nisun 2014 Secretary $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY FAIR AND FIELD DAYS INC
Philip T Susmann 2016 Vp Strategic Ptnrshp/Pres. Nuari $0 $36,754 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Anthony Holliday Jr 2016 Trustee $0 $0 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Julie Barry 2014 Board Member $0 $0 QUARRY HILL SCHOOL INC
Jake Orvis 2014 Internal Auditor $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Mark Benthin 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 ONE TREE PLANTED INC
Chritopher Callahan 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WINDSOR PUBLIC LIBRARY
Dawn Lefevre 2015 President $0 $0 NORTH CENTRAL VERMONT RECOVERY CENTER INC
Cathryn Nichols 2016 Board Member $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER
Les Mawson 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTH CENTRAL VERMONT RECOVERY CENTER INC
Sedney Ulrich 2015 Secretary $0 $0 NORTH CENTRAL VERMONT RECOVERY CENTER 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.