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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Al Duey 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM TRAVEL & TOURISM ASSOCIATION
Christopher Lievense 2016 Board Member $0 $0 EDUCATIONAL PRAXIS INC
Sarah Childs 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
John Brown 2016 President $0 $0 BARTON CHAMBERS APARTMENTS INC
Jeetan Khadka 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Larry Wesneski 2016 Director $0 $0 NORWICH UNIVERSITY APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTES LTD
Karen Lauzon 2015 President $0 $0 OUR HOUSE OF CENTRAL VT INC
Robert Lindefjeld 2016 Director $0 $0 NORWICH UNIVERSITY APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTES LTD
Jessica Makris 2016 Board Member $0 $0 EDUCATIONAL PRAXIS INC
Mark Young 2016 Director $0 $0 NORWICH UNIVERSITY APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTES LTD
Tom Kelly 2015 Board Member $0 $0 OUR HOUSE OF CENTRAL VT INC
William Doelger 2016 Chairman $0 $0 ONION RIVER EXCHANGE
Suzanne Legare Belcher 2015 Director $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU AND BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
Edisa Muller 2016 Co-Chair $0 $0 ONION RIVER EXCHANGE
Jim Doherty 2016 Captain $0 $0 MANCHESTER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION
Doug Sanders 2014 Surnise Treasurer $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Jeff Potvin 2014 President $0 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS
Shirley O'Dell 2014 Director $0 $0 APPLEGATE HOUSING INC
Tim Sampson 2014 Director $0 $0 FAR POST SOCCER CLUB INC
Richard Brockway 2015 Trustee $0 $0 BROWN PUBLIC LIBRARY
Carrol Knight 2016 Captain $0 $0 MANCHESTER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION
Michael Bettmann 2015 Trustee $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Frank J Barret Jr 2013 Chairman $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Arthur Lombard 2014 Director $0 $0 MANCHESTER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Roland Gibson 2014 Co-Vice Chair $0 $0 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF THE RUTLAND REGION 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.