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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Meg Erickson 2016 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC
Carol Moore 2015 Exec Director $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
John Preston 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATES FOR TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT INC
Hilary Linehan 2016 Strafford Representative $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Bryan Young 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BANKERS ASSOCIATION INC
Therese Linehan 2016 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Eileen Elliott 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION RECOVERY INC
Carrie Wells 2016 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Thomas Gallagher 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BANKERS ASSOCIATION INC
Andy Welch 2016 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Jim Wilson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Leslie Ratley-Beach See Sch O 2016 Vice President & Secretary - Arms $0 $0 TERRAFIRMA RISK RETENTION GROUP LLC
Marilyn Ayres See Sch O 2016 Treasurer - Arms $0 $0 TERRAFIRMA RISK RETENTION GROUP LLC
Andrew Bowman See Sch O 2016 President - Arms $0 $0 TERRAFIRMA RISK RETENTION GROUP LLC
Grant Smith 2016 Members Committee $0 $0 TERRAFIRMA RISK RETENTION GROUP LLC
Angela Twitchell 2016 Members Committee $0 $0 TERRAFIRMA RISK RETENTION GROUP LLC
Harry Pollack 2016 Members Committee $0 $0 TERRAFIRMA RISK RETENTION GROUP LLC
Kevin C Hicks 2016 Members Committee $0 $0 TERRAFIRMA RISK RETENTION GROUP LLC
William G Hauserman 2016 Members Committee $0 $0 TERRAFIRMA RISK RETENTION GROUP LLC
William L Gebo 2016 Members Committee $0 $0 TERRAFIRMA RISK RETENTION GROUP LLC
Becky Thorton 2016 Members Committee $0 $0 TERRAFIRMA RISK RETENTION GROUP LLC
Keith Gerrard 2016 Members Committee $0 $0 TERRAFIRMA RISK RETENTION GROUP LLC
Curt Gleaves 2016 Members Committee $0 $0 TERRAFIRMA RISK RETENTION GROUP LLC
Ken Mcfarland 2015 Director $0 $0 SHELBURNE FOOD SHELF INC
Thomas J Candon 2015 Director $0 $0 SHELBURNE FOOD SHELF 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.