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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Raph Worrick 2016 2Nd Captain $0 $0 CORNWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Mike Paquette 2016 Trails Cordinator $0 $0 FOOTE OF THE MOUNTAIN SNO-TRAVELERS INC
Don Hayes 2016 Director $0 $0 MAGIC MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Greg Macdonald 2014 Vice President $0 $0 CATAMOUNT FILM & ARTS CO
Fred Ober 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE
Mike Hendrickson 2016 Director $0 $0 ROZALIA PROJECT
Shirley Brown 2016 Director $0 $0 YOUNG AT HEART SENIOR CENTER INC
Andy Stone 2016 Director $0 $0 MAGIC MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Chris Dayton 2016 Secretary $0 $0 CORNWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Kevin Manahan 2016 Vice President $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY INDUSTRIAL
Barbara Gentry 2016 Director $0 $0 YOUTH SERVICES
David Marvin 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
Ann Debonis 2016 President $0 $0 YOUNG AT HEART SENIOR CENTER INC
Lew Castle 2016 Lieutenant 1 $0 $0 CORNWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Gini Smith 2017 Director $0 $0 BRANDON SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC
Richard Hoffman 2014 Board Member $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
David Twombly 2016 Director $0 $0 YOUTH SERVICES
Greg White 2016 President $0 $0 WOODSTOCK YOUTH HOCKEY INC
John Zink 2014 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON K OF C HOME ASSOCIATION INC
Abigail Faulkner 2016 Director $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT ADULT BASIC EDUCATION INC
Emo Chynoweth 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 WOODSTOCK YOUTH HOCKEY INC
Vickie Dejong-Case 2016 Director $0 $0 YOUTH SERVICES
William Epifanio 2015 Director $0 $0 CARLOS OTIS STRATTON MOUNTAIN CLINIC INC
Timm A Harris 2016 Director $0 $0 YOUTH SERVICES
Kim Gaines 2016 Vice President $0 $0 WOODSTOCK YOUTH HOCKEY 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.