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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Joyce Miller 2016 Secretary $0 $0 CHELSEA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER
Don Collins 2016 Franklin Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Ginny West 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CHELSEA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER
Zoe Aicher 2016 Board Member - Chelsea $0 $0 CHELSEA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER
Rob Keith 2014 Director $0 $0 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER VERGENNES INC
Sally Conrad 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Amy Leroux 2016 Orl/No Essx Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Shirley Hewitt 2016 Board Member - Chelsea $0 $0 CHELSEA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER
Lois Flint 2016 Board Member - Chelsea $0 $0 CHELSEA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER
Amy Wall 2016 Windham Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Jean Button 2016 Board Member - Chelsea $0 $0 CHELSEA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER
Bob Aicher 2016 Board Member - Chelsea $0 $0 CHELSEA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER
Nancy Gilman 2014 Board Member $0 $0 HOMELESS PREVENTION CENTER
Mike Clarke 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Mark Stebbins 2016 Lamoille Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Robert Holt 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Katie Lampton 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Brenda Benoir 2016 Board Member - Vershire $0 $0 CHELSEA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER
Laura Sibilia 2016 Windham Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Amity Shlaes 2013 Chairman $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Leah Hamilton 2016 Vice President $0 $0 HINESBURG NURSERY SCHOOL
Scottie Ginn 2016 Board Member Through 8/16 $0 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Flor Diaz-Smith 2016 Wash/Orange Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Melinda Moulton 2016 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER
Jack Kulig 2016 President $0 $0 ITALIAN AMERICAN CLUB 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.