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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Susi Benoit 2016 Member Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE AREA BOARD OF REALTORS
Julie Snide 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 PHOENIX FIRE COMPANY 6 INC
Thomas Lauzon 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT INAUGURAL COMMITTEE INC
Shannon Billings 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT INAUGURAL COMMITTEE INC
Richard Wobby 2016 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT INAUGURAL COMMITTEE INC
Governor Phil Scott 2016 President $0 $0 VERMONT INAUGURAL COMMITTEE INC
Alison Harte 2016 Director $0 $0 PATHWAYS VERMONT INC
Dawn Lebaron 2015 Secretary/Tr $0 $0 CHITTENDEN AREA TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INC
Julie Mckenna 2015 President $0 $0 QUECHEE ALPINE SKI CLUB INC
William Ballard 2015 Chair $0 $0 CHITTENDEN AREA TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INC
Richard Baker 2017 Director $0 $0 BRANDON SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC
Sue Granworth 2015 Trustee $0 $0 HASKELL FREE LIBRARY INC
Ross Murray 2015 Secretary $0 $0 HASKELL FREE LIBRARY INC
Susan C Persson 2013 Board Member $0 $0 LYNDON EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVE RESOURCES NETWORK INC
Susan H Burdick 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 AUXILIARY OF PORTER MEDICAL CENTER,INC
Dr Beth Ann Maier 2015 Board Members $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Karyn Dubie 2014 Member $0 $0 LYRIC THEATRE COMPANY
Cynthia Allen 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Maggie Giffin 2015 Board Member $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Shelie Richardson 2015 Secretary $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Pam Macy 2015 Vice President $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Brett Murphy 2015 President $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Tom Coloutti 2016 Vice President $0 $0 POULTNEY VALLEY SNOWMOBILE DEVILS INC
Karen Fortier 2015 Trustee $0 $0 DEERFIELD VALLEY FARMERS DAY ASSOCIATION INC
Peter Keene 2016 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST SLOPES 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.