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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Evan Ginsberg Md 2015 Director $0 $0 CARLOS OTIS STRATTON MOUNTAIN CLINIC INC
Ana Laffont 2015 Director $0 $0 CARLOS OTIS STRATTON MOUNTAIN CLINIC INC
Frances Dorskey 2015 President $0 $0 CARLOS OTIS STRATTON MOUNTAIN CLINIC INC
Adolf Dibiasio 2015 Director $0 $0 CARLOS OTIS STRATTON MOUNTAIN CLINIC INC
Lisa Northup 2016 3Rd Captain $0 $0 CORNWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Kristi Rikert 2016 Director $0 $0 MAGIC MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Geo Honigford 2015 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Emily Long 2015 President $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
David Schoales 2015 Windham Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Elaine Carpenter 2015 Franklin Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Stuart Weppler 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Celeste Girrell 2015 Cal/So Esx Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Penny Gendron 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ACADEMY
Stuart Eisenkraft 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ACADEMY
Chris Cota 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT ACADEMY
Casey Cota 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ACADEMY
Mark Candon 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ACADEMY
Carolyn Blitz 2014 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT ACADEMY
Raymond St John 2016 Historian $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Amy Otten 2015 Secretary $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Michael O'Leary 2015 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Brian Mohr 2015 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Angus Mccusker 2015 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Jay Maciejowski 2015 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Peter Lane 2015 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION

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.