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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lauren Groves 2016 Secretary & Treasurer $10,445 $585 TWIN STATE CHRISTIAN COUNSELING INC
George Lague 2016 Director - 1St Vice President $10,438 $16 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
David Dow 2016 Vice President $10,432 $0 VISIONS FOR CREATIVE HOUSING SOLUTIONS
Carlos Benavides 2017 Member $10,430 $0 MEDLIFE
Charlie Munson 2017 Worthy Secretary $10,424 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Hapy Mayer 2015 Finance Dire $10,416 $0 VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC
Donald Tetreault 2016 Adjutant $10,400 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Jay Craven 2013 Creative Dir $10,400 $0 KINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS
Andrea Cohen 2013 Executive Dir. $10,400 $250 VERMONT BUSINESSESS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESRCH & EDCTN FDTN
Malcolm Ewen 2013 Producing Director $10,400 $0 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Terry Granger 2014 Treasurer $10,400 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Sherry Mitchell 2014 Executive Di $10,400 $0 CAMP DOWNER INC
Harold Mitchell 2014 Resident Dir $10,400 $0 CAMP DOWNER INC
Donald Tetreault 2014 Adjutant $10,400 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Peter Schumann 2016 President $10,400 $0 BREAD & PUPPET THEATRE INC
Donald Tetreault 2013 Adjutant $10,400 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Donald Tetreault 2015 Adjutant $10,400 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Charlie Magnant 2015 Quarter Master Adjuant $10,400 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Raymond Jepson 2017 Finance Officer $10,381 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Marcia Levison 2013 Board/Officer $10,360 $0 RICHMOND FOOD SHELF AND THRIFT STORE
Harold Mitchell 2013 Director $10,350 $0 CAMP DOWNER INC
Pennie Mcedward-Rand 2016 Executive Di $10,314 $0 VERMONT SKI MUSEUM INC
Peter Schumann 2013 President $10,292 $0 BREAD & PUPPET THEATRE INC
Elka Schumann 2013 Secretary $10,292 $0 BREAD & PUPPET THEATRE INC
Gordon M Cook Jr 2015 President $10,286 $0 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA

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.