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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
D Wesley Smith Jr 2016 Director $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Brain Post 2016 Executive Dir. $0 $0 STONE TRUST INC
Nancy Shepherd 2016 Director $0 $0 STONE TRUST INC
Jerry Coogin 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 STONE TRUST INC
Steven Woodard 2014 Service Officer $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Matt Bushlow 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA
Ellen Arnold 2016 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST SLOPES INC
Sam Angell 2016 Secretary $0 $0 STONE TRUST INC
Jared Flynn 2016 Director $0 $0 STONE TRUST INC
Matt Mann 2016 Past Treasurer $0 $0 STONE TRUST INC
Thomas J Mora 2016 Vice President $0 $0 STONE TRUST INC
Peter Welch 2016 President $0 $0 STONE TRUST INC
Pauline Laperle 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 THE PLACE OF REFRESHING INC
Kathleen Robare 2016 Sec. $0 $0 THE PLACE OF REFRESHING INC
John Giroux 2016 Pres. $0 $0 THE PLACE OF REFRESHING INC
David Tucker 2015 Director $0 $0 VOICES FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN INC
Bob Sheil 2015 Director $0 $0 VOICES FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN INC
Harry Frank 2015 President $0 $0 VOICES FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN INC
K C Whiteley 2015 Director $0 $0 VOICES FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN INC
Jane Pincus 2015 Director $0 $0 VOICES FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN INC
Kim Bruno 2015 Director $0 $0 VOICES FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN INC
Samantha Stevens 2015 Secretary $0 $0 VOICES FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN INC
Brydon Beasant 2016 Past President $0 $0 LAMOILLE AREA BOARD OF REALTORS
Mary Claire Carroll 2015 Director $0 $0 VOICES FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN INC
Celena Mcmanus 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 POULTNEY VALLEY SNOWMOBILE DEVILS 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.