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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Leah Stewart 2016 Secretary $0 $0 BARNARD COMMUNITY TRUST INC
Boyd Bishop 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 BARNARD COMMUNITY TRUST INC
Lee Resseguie 2016 Vice President $0 $0 BARNARD COMMUNITY TRUST INC
Tom Platner 2016 President $0 $0 BARNARD COMMUNITY TRUST INC
Peter Loring 2015 Director $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Elaine Latzky 2015 Secretary $0 $0 KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Jane Kosmider 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Ann Singiser 2015 Vice President $0 $0 KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Christopher Keyser 2015 President $0 $0 KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Peter Miller 2015 Trustee $0 $0 KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Betsy Holland 2015 Trustee $0 $0 KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
J Alvin Wakefield 2015 Trustee $0 $0 KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Glenn Giles 2015 Trustee $0 $0 KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Baxter Holland 2015 Trustee $0 $0 KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Sarah Waite 2016 Pres $0 $0 THRIFTY ATTIC INC
Edward Koren 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Ernest Sanders 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Rebecca Mcmeekin 2016 Vp $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Stanley Weiss 2016 Secretary $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Judge Lawrence H Bruce 2015 Director $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Robin Macarthur 2014 President $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Thomas Moseley 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC
Judy Geiger 2015 Trustee $0 $0 KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Wendy Arace 2016 Member $0 $0 THRIFTY ATTIC INC
Patricia Slade 2016 Member $0 $0 THRIFTY ATTIC 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.