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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Charles Boyle 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Arthur Charron 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Cheryl Treworgy 2015 Board Member $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Monette Ferguson 2014 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND HEAD START ASSOCIATION
David Fraser 2015 Board Member $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Candace Coburn 2015 V President $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Lisa Gramling 2015 Board Member $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Nancy Colburn 2016 Vice President $0 $0 FRIENDS OF VETERANS INC
Pete Davis 2016 Member-At-Large $0 $0 FRIENDS OF VETERANS INC
Patt Taylor 2016 Secretary $0 $0 FRIENDS OF VETERANS INC
Larry Daigle 2016 President $0 $0 FRIENDS OF VETERANS INC
Eileen Von Gal 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 FRIENDS OF VETERANS INC
Paul Marinelli 2016 Member-At-Large $0 $0 FRIENDS OF VETERANS INC
Richard Hayden 2016 Member-At-Large $0 $0 FRIENDS OF VETERANS INC
Daniel Fogarty 2016 Finance Officer $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Rassoul Rangaviz 2015 Cfo $0 $10,044 LAMOILLE AREA HOUSING CORPORATION THE
Arthur Mathisen 2015 President & Ceo $0 $651 LAMOILLE AREA HOUSING CORPORATION THE
Melvyn Patashnick 2015 Past President & Ceo $0 $36,786 LAMOILLE AREA HOUSING CORPORATION THE
Charles Hogan 2015 Past Trustee $0 $0 LAMOILLE AREA HOUSING CORPORATION THE
Willa Farrell 2015 Past Trustee $0 $0 LAMOILLE AREA HOUSING CORPORATION THE
Lyn Huntoon 2015 Secretary $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FOODSHELF
Darren Childs 2015 President $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FOODSHELF
Karen A Bartlett 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FOODSHELF
Scott Louiselle 2015 Vice President $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FOODSHELF
Melissa Slenker 2015 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FOODSHELF

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.