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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Cliff Johnson 2015 Director $0 $0 COPLEY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP INC
Marion Hecht 2015 Director $0 $0 COPLEY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP INC
Kevin Goddard 2015 Director $0 $0 COPLEY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP INC
Peter Anderson 2015 Director $0 $0 COPLEY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP INC
Ted Lambert 2014 President $0 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE
Kevin Mcdonnell 2016 Sectretary $0 $0 PROCTOR FREE LIBRARY
Mary Moulton 2015 President $0 $0 COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS CORP
Phil Black 2014 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI & SPORTS
Tori Pesek 2014 Member $0 $0 VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI & SPORTS
Robin Lawrence 2016 Director $0 $0 WESTMINSTER CARES INCORPORATED
Sally Ryea 2016 Director $0 $0 WESTMINSTER CARES INCORPORATED
Michael Messier 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MOUNT SNOW SKI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Miriam Lanata 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 WESTMINSTER CARES INCORPORATED
Lori Larue 2016 Vice President $0 $0 WESTMINSTER CARES INCORPORATED
Don Dawson 2016 Director $0 $0 WESTMINSTER CARES INCORPORATED
Barbara Sherrod 2016 Director $0 $0 WESTMINSTER CARES INCORPORATED
Phyllis Anderson 2016 Bd Mbr Emerita $0 $0 WESTMINSTER CARES INCORPORATED
Heidi Anderson 2016 Director $0 $0 WESTMINSTER CARES INCORPORATED
Regina Borden 2016 Secretary $0 $0 WESTMINSTER CARES INCORPORATED
Peter Harrison 2016 Acting Pres $0 $0 WESTMINSTER CARES INCORPORATED
Kathy Elliot 2016 Bd Mbr Emerita $0 $0 WESTMINSTER CARES INCORPORATED
Tiffany Keune 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ADULT LEARNING INC
Donna Casey 2015 Director $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT COMMUNITY TELEVISION
Paul Hutchins 2015 Chairman $0 $0 CAPITAL SOCCER CLUB INC
Claudia Stephens 2016 Vice President/Director $0 $12,119 PENNSYLVANIA ACACIA INSURANCE COMPANY LTD

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.