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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Cameron Davis 2015 Officer $0 $0 METTA EARTH INSTITUTE INC
Sam Cutting Iv 2015 Director $0 $0 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE VERMONT STATE
Richard Marron 2015 Executive Committee $0 $0 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE VERMONT STATE
John Burton 2015 Executive Committee $0 $0 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE VERMONT STATE
Janette Bombardier 2015 Director $0 $0 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE VERMONT STATE
Elizabeth Nelson 2014 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Erin Wright 2016 Director $0 $0 JILL E HARRINGTON HANZALIK MEMORIAL FUND INC
William Badger 2016 Director $0 $0 MANCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Charlie Wilson 2014 President $0 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Brian Charron 2014 Vp Travel $0 $0 BURLINGTON AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Merten Bangemann-Johnson 2014 President $0 $0 PASSUMPSIC VIEW INC
Peter S Paine 2015 Past Director $0 $0 CENTER FOR WOODLANDS EDUCATION INC
Deborah Beckett 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Robert Saul 2015 Vice President $0 $0 CENTER FOR WOODLANDS EDUCATION INC
Tom Hubbs 2014 Vp $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Thomas Ciardelli 2015 Treasurer/Secretary $0 $0 CENTER FOR WOODLANDS EDUCATION INC
Sydney Lea 2015 Past Director $0 $0 CENTER FOR WOODLANDS EDUCATION INC
Sarah R Bogdanovitch 2015 Past Director $0 $0 CENTER FOR WOODLANDS EDUCATION INC
Julia Emlen 2015 Director $0 $0 CENTER FOR WOODLANDS EDUCATION INC
Wes Ward 2016 Vice President $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
William Barr 2015 Board Member $0 $0 ADVANCE TRANSIT INC
Midori Eckenstein Ms1 2015 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INCORPORATED
Carolyn Radisch 2015 Secretary $0 $0 ADVANCE TRANSIT INC
Charles Myers 2015 Executive Director $0 $4,329 NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC
Kelly Madden 2015 Treasurer & Director $0 $3,503 NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE 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.