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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Dana Waters 2016 Director $0 $0 WINDSOR COUNTY BOARD OF REALTORS INC
Amy Messina 2016 Director $0 $0 WINDSOR COUNTY BOARD OF REALTORS INC
Gail Childs 2016 Director $0 $0 WINDSOR COUNTY BOARD OF REALTORS INC
Matt Spittle 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 WINDSOR COUNTY BOARD OF REALTORS INC
Chris Lang 2016 President $0 $0 WINDSOR COUNTY BOARD OF REALTORS INC
Mikaela Keepin 2016 Board Member $0 $0 US MAHER FRIENDS INC
Michael Julow 2016 Board Member $0 $0 US MAHER FRIENDS INC
John Dahin 2016 Board Member $0 $0 US MAHER FRIENDS INC
Jeanne Kellner 2016 Board Member $0 $0 US MAHER FRIENDS INC
Tanuja Scowcroft 2016 Treas/Sec'Y $0 $0 US MAHER FRIENDS INC
Brenda Howley 2016 President $0 $0 US MAHER FRIENDS INC
Martin Lalonde 2016 Director $0 $0 SOUTH BURLINGTON SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT INC
Matt Guyette 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 SOUTH BURLINGTON SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT INC
Patrick Burke 2016 President $0 $0 SOUTH BURLINGTON SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT INC
Dr Larry Earvin 2014 Director-Termed 12/14 $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Chris Cady 2016 President $0 $0 FAMILIES FIRST IN SOUTHERN VERMONT INC
Carissa Hodgdon 2015 Asst Treasurer $0 $0 ASCUTNEY VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSOCIATION INC
Doug Sheehan 2016 Director $0 $0 BLACK RIVER VALLEY SENIOR CENTER
Jessica Wilson 2015 Vice President $0 $0 REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION NETWORK INC
Michael Robillard 2016 Trustee $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS
Steven Robinson 2016 Director $0 $0 SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC
Bob Reese 2016 Director $0 $0 SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC
Peter Zamore 2016 Director $0 $0 SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC
Christine Mack 2016 Director $0 $0 SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC
Richard Heilman 2016 Secretary $0 $0 SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST 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.