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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lynn Bushey 2015 Board Member $0 $0 COMMUNITY RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER INC
Trish Shabazz 2014 Council Memb $0 $0 BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE COUNCIL INC
Clemencia Rodriguez 2015 Director $0 $0 AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP
Andrea Todd 2016 Secretary $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CARSHARE
Stewart Pierson 2016 Restore Liai $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Jeffrey A Goodwin 2016 President $0 $0 CALEDONIA MAPLE ASSOCIATION INC
Russell Kulas 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 THE MENTOR CONNECTOR
Kathy Demars 2015 Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Lucy Mckee 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC
Edgar Corey 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA
Douglas C Borchard 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 WATERFORD SPRINGS CORP
Harry Miller 2015 Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Carl Szlachetka 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Jane Goldstein 2015 Chairman $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Larry Dickie 2015 Ex Officio $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Otie Filkorn 2015 Membership $0 $0 COCHRANS SKI CLUB INC
Anthea Dexter-Cooper 2014 Director $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Chris Chivers 2015 Equipment Ma $0 $0 COCHRANS SKI CLUB INC
Karl Goetze 2015 Secretary $0 $0 COCHRANS SKI CLUB INC
Gina Kelley 2016 President $0 $0 THE MENTOR CONNECTOR
Willa Farrell 2015 Past Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Ronald Paquette 2015 President $0 $0 COCHRANS SKI CLUB INC
Regina Rice Barker 2015 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF COURT DIVERSION PROGRAMS INC
Rebecca Penberthy 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF COURT DIVERSION PROGRAMS INC
Edward Butler 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK 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.