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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Sean Hammond 2015 Trustee $0 $0 DEERFIELD VALLEY FARMERS DAY ASSOCIATION INC
Chris Boyd 2015 Trustee $0 $0 DEERFIELD VALLEY FARMERS DAY ASSOCIATION INC
Matthew Somerville 2015 Trustee $0 $0 DEERFIELD VALLEY FARMERS DAY ASSOCIATION INC
Joe Niciforo 2015 President $0 $0 GREENWOOD SCHOOL INC
Tony Kilbride 2015 Trustee $0 $0 DEERFIELD VALLEY FARMERS DAY ASSOCIATION INC
Steven Adams 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 DEERFIELD VALLEY FARMERS DAY ASSOCIATION INC
Mike Frankiewicz 2017 Director $0 $0 BRANDON SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC
Susanne Engels 2015 President $0 $0 WONDERFEET KIDS MUSEUM
Debbie Bailey 2015 Secretary $0 $0 GREENWOOD SCHOOL INC
Alan Katz 2015 Trustee $0 $0 GREENWOOD SCHOOL INC
David Taplin 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ETV INC
Chris Ettori 2015 Board Member $0 $0 WONDERFEET KIDS MUSEUM
Sandra Moneypenny 2015 Trustee $0 $0 GREENWOOD SCHOOL INC
Richard Murphy 2015 Trustee $0 $0 GREENWOOD SCHOOL INC
Carrie Allen 2014 Vice Preside $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF RUTLAND COUNTY VERMONT INC
Dylan Kelley 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA
Cynthia Borck 2015 Board Member $0 $0 THE MANOR INC
Chris Holden 2016 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE WARDSBORO LIBRARY INC
Donna Stockman 2014 Trustee $0 $0 KILLINGTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC
Heidi M Cunningham 2016 Director $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Kathleen Campbell 2013 Education Director $0 $0 LYNDON EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVE RESOURCES NETWORK INC
Adam Rainville 2016 Director $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Jeff Taft-Dick 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC
Lee Acavello 2014 Member $0 $0 CHILD FIRST ADVOCACY CENTER
Asiya Saraswathi Tschannerl 2016 Board Member $0 $0 EDUCATIONAL PRAXIS 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.