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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Becky Dayton 2016 President $0 $0 ELINOR SANCHEZ SUPPORTIVE HOUSING CORP
Diane Leddy 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WRITING COLLABORATIVE INC
Joanna Hawkins 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WRITING COLLABORATIVE INC
Eloise Ginty 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WRITING COLLABORATIVE INC
Karen Kurzman 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WRITING COLLABORATIVE INC
Jane Miller 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WRITING COLLABORATIVE INC
Danielle Bean 2016 Vp House $0 $0 BURLINGTON AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
William Callnan 2015 Administrator $0 $0 VT LIFE & HEALTH INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION
Charmain Aggarwal 2016 Director $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CAPTIVE INSURANCE EDUCATION INC
Joseph Sawyer 2017 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA FARMERS MARKET INC
Olivia Winslow 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA FARMERS MARKET INC
Noah Hoskins-Forsythe 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Karina Warshaw 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Pete Land 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
John Roberts 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Walter Poleman 2015 Chairman Of The Board Of Trustees $0 $0 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Sarah Muyskens 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Sheri Larsen 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Liam O'Farrell 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT PLUMBERS & PIPEFITTERS LABOR MANAGEMENT FUND
Ms Mary Ellen Moriarty 2015 Vice President $0 $47,461 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Jeffrey Potvin 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT PLUMBERS & PIPEFITTERS LABOR MANAGEMENT FUND
Mr Stephen L Garwood 2015 Treasurer $0 $68,743 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Robert Wetherby 2016 Secretary $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTRY CLUB INC
Vic Shappy 2016 Vice President $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTRY CLUB INC
Kevin Thompson 2016 President $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTRY CLUB 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.