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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Matthew Cropp 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA
Gisele Macharg 2015 Trustee $0 $0 ROYALTON MEMORIAL LIBARY ASSOC
Theresa Manning 2015 Trustee $0 $0 ROYALTON MEMORIAL LIBARY ASSOC
Bonnie Kenyon 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 ROYALTON MEMORIAL LIBARY ASSOC
Cyndy Gates 2015 President $0 $0 ROYALTON MEMORIAL LIBARY ASSOC
Louise Bonvechio 2016 President $0 $0 MEMPHREMAGOG SENIOR CITIZEN HOUSING INC
Hemant Tamang 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC
Ed Demulder 2016 Prsident $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION
Charlie Rathbone 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC
Karen Corbman 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC
Br Frank Hagerty 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC
Harris Webster 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC
Br Tom Berube 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC
Fran Carlson 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC
Bill Thompson 2015 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC
Rev Earl Kooperkamp 2015 President $0 $0 VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC
Greg Nickels 2016 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Mike Shirling Resigned 2015 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Bidur Dahal 2015 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Hillary Boone Orsini 2015 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Anne Lezak 2015 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Ted Adler 2015 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Yael Friedman 2015 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Andrew Bond 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 SHELBURNE NURSERY SCHOOL
Joe Wright 2015 Director $0 $0 GOOD STEWARD FOUNDATION OF MORRISVILLE VERMONT 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.