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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Grace Wakulchik 2014 Director/Coo $0 $178,421 CHILD DIMENSIONS INSURANCE COMPANY
Ben Wilson 2016 Board Member $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER
Michelle Legere 2015 Director $0 $0 NORTH CENTRAL VERMONT RECOVERY CENTER INC
Louis Weller 2015 Vice Preside $0 $0 NORTH CENTRAL VERMONT RECOVERY CENTER INC
Lisa Dilena 2014 Lecturingknight $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Carl Symecko 2014 Vice President $0 $0 SKI AND BOARD CLUB AT STRATTON INC
Carol Loysen 2015 Director $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL AUXILIARY INC
Manon O'Connor 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LUND FAMILY CENTER INC
Cindy Elcan 2014 Director $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Ludy Biddle 2016 Trustee $0 $0 SPRING LAKE RANCH INC
Joel E Dube 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 SPECIAL SERVICES TRANSPORTATION AGENCY
Sheila Rysz 2015 Director $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL AUXILIARY INC
Suzanne Korosec 2014 Secretary $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Mark Madison 2016 Vice President $0 $0 COMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD INC
Patti Bittney-Starke 2016 Secretary $0 $0 COPELAND CENTER FOR WELLNESS AND RECOVERY INCORPORATED
Tracy Dolan 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT PROGRAM FOR QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE INC
Dana Foster 2016 Trustee $0 $0 SPRING LAKE RANCH INC
William Lutz 2015 Director $0 $0 JOURNEY NORTH
Mike Wetherell 2015 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
Katharine P Stone 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS INC
Patrick Mckee 2016 Trustee $0 $0 SPRING LAKE RANCH INC
Timothy A Ordway 2016 Vice President $0 $0 HALE MOUNTAIN FISH & GAME CLUB INC
Mark E Kuchefski 2014 Former Director $0 $33,619 OLD CRESCENT INSURANCE COMPANY
Douglas White 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT FLIGHT ACADEMY INC
Francis Killay 2014 Commander $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION

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.