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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Melissa Andersen 2016 Board $0 $0 RICHMOND FOOD SHELF AND THRIFT STORE
Maddie Ruth 2016 Board/Officer $0 $0 RICHMOND FOOD SHELF AND THRIFT STORE
Marty Gallagher 2015 Board Member $0 $0 FALLS AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Robert Howe 2015 Trustee $0 $0 FUND FOR NORTH BENNINGTON INC
Cheryl Sherwin 2015 Board Member $0 $0 FALLS AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Dave Quesnel 2016 Clerk $0 $0 MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
Merrick Counsell 2016 1St Vice Pre $0 $0 MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
Alex Ramsvig 2016 Director $0 $0 MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
Chris Rutken 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
Peter Coffin 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MOUNT SNOW SKI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Karen Coppin 2016 Director $0 $0 MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
Kit Chamberlain 2016 2Nd Vice Pre $0 $0 MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
Jillian Lourie 2016 Director $0 $0 MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
Tyson Fielding 2016 Director $0 $0 MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
Tom Ayers 2015 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN COUNTY GOVERMENT ACCESS CHANNEL TRUST
Ashley Michelle Fowler 2016 Board Chair $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA
Dustin Byerly 2016 Board $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Michael Smith 2015 President $0 $0 FALLS AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Diane Bothfeld 2015 Board Member $0 $0 DAIRYVISION VERMONT INC
George Brisson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ADULT LEARNING INC
Craig Newton 2015 Board Member $0 $0 DAIRYVISION VERMONT INC
Patrick Rooney 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Sue Hoxie 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Maureen Conrad 2016 Vice-President $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Jim Stuart 2016 President $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY 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.