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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Andrea Forrest Brock 2014 Vice-Chair $0 $0 VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
Evan Hughes 2016 V. President $0 $0 VERMONT FEDERATION OF SPORTSMENS CLUBS INC
Rowan Beck 2016 Director $0 $0 MAHANA MAGIC FOUNDATION INC
Manon O'Connor 2016 Director $0 $0 MAHANA MAGIC FOUNDATION INC
John Nichols 2016 Secretary $0 $0 MAHANA MAGIC FOUNDATION INC
Makena Couture 2016 Director $0 $0 MAHANA MAGIC FOUNDATION INC
Monica Marshall 2016 Vice President $0 $0 MAHANA MAGIC FOUNDATION INC
Will Littlefield 2016 Director $0 $0 MAHANA MAGIC FOUNDATION INC
Debby Hanley 2016 Director $0 $0 MAHANA MAGIC FOUNDATION INC
Cliff Deetjen 2016 President $0 $0 MAHANA MAGIC FOUNDATION INC
Joann Cyr 2016 Director $0 $0 MAHANA MAGIC FOUNDATION INC
Elaine Lawrence 2016 Board Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Tony Aldrich 2015 Trustee $0 $0 ASCUTNEY VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSOCIATION INC
Cinda Donton 2015 Vice President $0 $0 BROC-COMMUNITY ACTION IN SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT
Alison Walsh 2016 Secretary $0 $0 MOUNTAIN VALLEY HEALTH COUNCIL INC
Charles A Woods 2016 Director $0 $0 MOUNTAIN VALLEY HEALTH COUNCIL INC
Barbara Ardell 2016 Director $0 $0 MOUNTAIN VALLEY HEALTH COUNCIL INC
Carlton Raymond 2016 Vice President $0 $0 MOUNTAIN VALLEY HEALTH COUNCIL INC
Denis Pinkernell 2016 Director $0 $0 MOUNTAIN VALLEY HEALTH COUNCIL INC
Elsie Smith 2016 Vice President $0 $0 MOUNTAIN VALLEY HEALTH COUNCIL INC
Berthe Cowles 2016 Director $0 $0 MOUNTAIN VALLEY HEALTH COUNCIL INC
Walter Scott 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 MOUNTAIN VALLEY HEALTH COUNCIL INC
Michael Morfit 2016 Director $0 $0 MOUNTAIN VALLEY HEALTH COUNCIL INC
Esther Fishman 2016 Director $0 $0 MOUNTAIN VALLEY HEALTH COUNCIL INC
Stephen Lyon 2016 President $0 $0 MOUNTAIN VALLEY HEALTH COUNCIL 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.