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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Gary Carrier 2014 Vice President $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES
Alex Frank 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CANCER RESEARCH ORGANIZATION INC
Christopher Sink 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM AND ART CENTER INC
Laurel Colles 2016 Board Member - Until 10/2016 $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Gina Pattison 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM AND ART CENTER INC
Ann Condon 2016 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Bryan Garcia 2016 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Karen Williams-Fox 2014 Board $0 $0 MONTPELIER DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
Robert Thomas 2014 President $0 $0 CIRENAS INC
Lori Strastos 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Shannon Darrah 2014 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Susan Wilson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM AND ART CENTER INC
David Grant 2016 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Brian Murphy Esq 2015 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Elizabeth Knup 2016 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Alan G Mitchell 2016 President $0 $0 THE BRIDGEWATER SUSTAINABLE EARTH FOUNDATION INC
Madeleine M Kunin 2016 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Laura Howat 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM AND ART CENTER INC
Fein Rosenblum 2016 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE
Lorna F Cueves 2016 Vice President $0 $0 THE BRIDGEWATER SUSTAINABLE EARTH FOUNDATION INC
Rev Eugene Taylor Sutton 2016 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Steve Lloyd 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM AND ART CENTER INC
Mary Hong 2016 Secretary $0 $0 HINESBURG NURSERY SCHOOL
Susan Mcmahon 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM AND ART CENTER INC
Alex Wilson 2016 Vice President $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.