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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Edith Hussey 2016 Member $0 $0 THRIFTY ATTIC INC
Betty Forbes 2016 Member $0 $0 THRIFTY ATTIC INC
Andrea Ogden 2016 Sec'Y $0 $0 THRIFTY ATTIC INC
Marion Laselle 2016 Vice Pres $0 $0 THRIFTY ATTIC INC
Charles Moore 2015 Vice President $0 $0 NATIONAL ELEVATOR BARGAININGASSOCIATION
Bambi Mohr 2015 Director $0 $0 WATERBURY AREA SENIOR CITIZENS ASSN
Mark Forkey 2015 Director $0 $0 WATERBURY AREA SENIOR CITIZENS ASSN
Amy Lavery 2015 Director $0 $0 WATERBURY AREA SENIOR CITIZENS ASSN
David W Schuler 2015 Director $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Arlis Fuglie 2015 Secretary $0 $0 WATERBURY AREA SENIOR CITIZENS ASSN
Bella Preedom 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 WATERBURY AREA SENIOR CITIZENS ASSN
Phil Walbridge 2015 President $0 $0 WATERBURY AREA SENIOR CITIZENS ASSN
Donald Gile 2015 Director $0 $0 WATERBURY AREA SENIOR CITIZENS ASSN
Frederick Waryas 2015 Vice Preside $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS AREA SENIOR CENTER INC
Hugh Haggerty 2015 President $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS AREA SENIOR CENTER INC
Frank Stanley 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN INTERNATIONAL INC
Arthur Magnaghi Jr 2015 Director $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Jane Westfall 2015 Director $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS AREA SENIOR CENTER INC
Jed Putney 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 SHARON ACADEMY
Frederick Yates 2015 Director $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS AREA SENIOR CENTER INC
Joan Lake 2015 Director $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS AREA SENIOR CENTER INC
Sarah Lavigne 2014 Director $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Janis Severance 2014 Director $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Lynn Bates 2015 Member $0 $0 MONROE PLACE CORPORATION
Sharon Moffat 2015 Member $0 $0 MONROE PLACE CORPORATION

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.