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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Dan Rodliff 2016 Board Member $0 $0 THE VERMONT INSURANCE AGENTS ASSOCIATION INC
Alan Kinney 2016 Board Member $0 $0 THE VERMONT INSURANCE AGENTS ASSOCIATION INC
Paul Plunkett 2016 Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0 THE VERMONT INSURANCE AGENTS ASSOCIATION INC
Charles Ams 2016 Board Member $0 $0 THE VERMONT INSURANCE AGENTS ASSOCIATION INC
Ron Bixby 2016 State Nat'L Director $0 $0 THE VERMONT INSURANCE AGENTS ASSOCIATION INC
Erin Odell 2016 Vice President $0 $0 THE VERMONT INSURANCE AGENTS ASSOCIATION INC
Peter Richards 2016 President $0 $0 THE VERMONT INSURANCE AGENTS ASSOCIATION INC
Tim Sampson 2015 Chairman $0 $0 FAR POST SOCCER CLUB INC
Richard Dexter 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 GALLERY AT THE VAULT INCORPORATED
Elliott Cooperstone 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MOUNT SNOW SKI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
John Hughes 2015 President $0 $0 GALLERY AT THE VAULT INCORPORATED
Tom Haushalter 2016 President $0 $0 WINDSOR PUBLIC LIBRARY
Kandi St James 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 EAST DOVER VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Robin Migdelany 2016 Vice President $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY WORKS
Laura Frank 2014 Secretary $0 $0 GUILFORD PERFORMANCE LAB INC
Kelley Newell 2014 Secretary $0 $0 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC
Duane Moulton 2017 Chief $0 $0 CHARLESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Ann Hare 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY WORKS
Martha Rideout 2015 Board Member $0 $0 WONDERFEET KIDS MUSEUM
Jill Berry Bowen 2014 President & Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS NETWORK
Megan Schultz 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
Tom Kupfer 2015 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT MOUNTAIN BIKE ADVOCATE INC
Patricia Forbes 2016 Board Of Directors $0 $0 CREDIT UNION OF VERMONT
Gary F Terry 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Gordon Sullivan 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH UNIVERSITY

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.