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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Patricia Sabalis 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ETV INC
Andy Reed 2014 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS FOUNDATION FOR MEMS INC
Robert Fischer 2017 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN WATER ENVIRONMENT ASSOCIATION
Kirsten Newcomer 2014 Director $0 $0 MARLBORO COLLEGE
Doug Adams 2014 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY TRANSIT RESOURCES
David Allaire 2014 Director $0 $0 RECOVERY HOUSE INC
Meg Baker 2014 Board Member $0 $0 QUARRY HILL SCHOOL INC
Bill Mccarthy 2014 Trustee $0 $0 AMERICAN PRECISION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
Jim Flynn 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 GILMAN HOUSING TRUST INC
Lynn Mitchell Md 2016 Director $0 $55,924 ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS INSURANCECOMPANY
Kim Gleason 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Donna Steinberg 2016 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Suzanna Liepmann 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Steve Conlon 2016 Vice President $0 $0 PHULMAYA FOUNDATION LTD
Harrison Kahn 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC
Karl Furstenberg 2016 Lyme Representative $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Linda Chambers 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT INC
Adam Gebb 2016 President $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY INCORPORATED
Lindsey Klecan 2016 Clerk $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Brucie Hubbell 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC
Jean Giard 2016 Trustee $0 $0 THE CONVERSE HOME INC
David Kelley 2016 Director $0 $0 PHULMAYA FOUNDATION LTD
Marcia Steckler 2016 President $0 $0 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BRATTLEBORO INC
Kate Mcgowan 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 UNITED WAYS OF VERMONT
Betsy Gentile 2016 Past Board Member $0 $0 LANDMARK TRUST USA 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.