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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
David Woodwawrd 2015 Southern Area $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Melissa Nelson 2015 Director $0 $0 CENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES INC
Polly Hoppin 2015 Director $0 $0 CENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES INC
Carolyn Finney 2015 Director $0 $0 CENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES INC
Dr Rick Baum 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Dr Asya Zolotusky 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Dr Hailey Gentile 2015 Past President $0 $0 VERMONT VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Patt Taylor 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VALLEY COURT DIVERSION PROGRAM INC
Danny Duchaine 2015 Secretary $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Robert Pearl 2015 Service Offi $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Travis Ryan 2015 1St Vice Co $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Mike Lamphere 2015 Commander/Tr $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Kristin Smith 2016 President $0 $0 GALLOP TO SUCESS
Valerie Shemeth 2016 Executive Di $0 $0 GALLOP TO SUCESS
Samantha Spence 2015 Director $0 $0 OAK HILL CHILDRENS CENTER
Sharon Ayer 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD LEARNING GARDEN INC
Suzanne St Hillare Mason 2015 Secretary $0 $0 OAK HILL CHILDRENS CENTER
Angie Rawling 2015 Vice President $0 $0 OAK HILL CHILDRENS CENTER
Caroline Martel 2015 President $0 $0 OAK HILL CHILDRENS CENTER
David Yacovone 2015 Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Robin Sweetapple 2015 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC
David Snyder 2015 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC
Larry Siegel 2015 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC
Alex Ogle 2015 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC
James Maxwell 2015 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER 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.