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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lisa Warren 2015 President $0 $0 CALEDONIA SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
Anne Debevoise Ostby 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Anna Pirie 2015 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
Julie Bond 2015 Director $0 $0 MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CENTRAL VERMONT INC
Angela Walters 2015 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
Rich Lloyd 2014 Trustee $0 $0 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF RUTLAND
Lynn Bushey 2015 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
Steve Simpson 2016 President $0 $0 NORTHEAST SLOPES INC
Clement Houde 2015 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
Bob Bower 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 MIDDLESEX FIRE DEPARTMENT
Katie Koonz 2015 Secretary $0 $0 MIDDLESEX FIRE DEPARTMENT
Bill Smith 2015 Vice President $0 $0 MIDDLESEX FIRE DEPARTMENT
Jeff Koonz 2015 President $0 $0 MIDDLESEX FIRE DEPARTMENT
Tom Hunt 2016 Finance Officer And 2Nd Vice Commander $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION CLUB
John Kohler 2015 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO OUTING CLUB INC
Chris Wocell 2015 Co-President $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO OUTING CLUB INC
Jay Jacobowitz 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO OUTING CLUB INC
Shabir Kamal 2015 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO OUTING CLUB INC
Joe Meyer 2015 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO OUTING CLUB INC
Hyam Siegel 2015 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO OUTING CLUB INC
Larry Mcintosh 2015 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO OUTING CLUB INC
Susan Jacobs 2014 Participant Sector Representative $0 $0 CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Jennifer Wallace 2016 Public Sector Representati $0 $0 CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Justin Barnard 2015 Director $0 $0 MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CENTRAL VERMONT INC
David Epstein 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

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.