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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Rob Gentle 2015 Vice President $0 $0 GOOD STEWARD FOUNDATION OF MORRISVILLE VERMONT INC
Ben Olsen 2015 Directormember $0 $0 GOOD STEWARD FOUNDATION OF MORRISVILLE VERMONT INC
Carrie Wilson 2015 Secretarydirector $0 $0 GOOD STEWARD FOUNDATION OF MORRISVILLE VERMONT INC
Arnold Langbo 2015 Directormember $0 $0 GOOD STEWARD FOUNDATION OF MORRISVILLE VERMONT INC
Riley Goodemote 2015 Director $0 $0 LATCHIS ARTS INC
Nisha Biswal 2016 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Syla Sengaloun 2016 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA FARMERS MARKET INC
Ingrid Chrisco 2016 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA FARMERS MARKET INC
Malah Miller 2016 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA FARMERS MARKET INC
Simon Renault 2016 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA FARMERS MARKET INC
Noah Elbers 2016 Co-President $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA FARMERS MARKET INC
Rama Chalamuri 2016 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA FARMERS MARKET INC
Susan Dunning 2016 Secretary $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA FARMERS MARKET INC
George Dutton 2016 President $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA FARMERS MARKET INC
Jeff Potvin 2015 Trustee $0 $0 PLUMBERS & PIPEFITTERS LOCAL 693 HEALTH & WELFARE FUND
Beth-Ann Betz 2016 Formertreasurer $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA FARMERS MARKET INC
Walter Knight 2015 Director $0 $0 AHA WATER COOPERATIVE INC
James Townsend 2015 Director $0 $0 AHA WATER COOPERATIVE INC
Henry Sauvagna 2015 Director $0 $0 AHA WATER COOPERATIVE INC
William Hayman 2015 Secretary $0 $0 AHA WATER COOPERATIVE INC
Albert Perry 2015 Vice President $0 $0 AHA WATER COOPERATIVE INC
Graham Holder 2015 President $0 $0 AHA WATER COOPERATIVE INC
Scott Woodard 2016 Board $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Gary Cromie 2016 Finance Offi $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Chris Wood 2016 Adjutant $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION

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.