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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Bruce Bouchard 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ETV INC
Timothy Merton 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 EDUCATIONAL PRAXIS INC
Karen Schroeder 2016 Secretary $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Bruce Bouchard 2016 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Ashley Lyle 2016 Secretary $0 $0 POULTNEY VALLEY SNOWMOBILE DEVILS INC
Rebecca Schrader 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 ONION RIVER EXCHANGE
John Martin 2016 President $0 $0 HIGH FIVE ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC
Karen Saunders 2016 Secretary $0 $0 EDUCATIONAL PRAXIS INC
Richard Munch 2016 Director $0 $0 POULTNEY VALLEY SNOWMOBILE DEVILS INC
David Connor 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VOICES FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN INC
Don Mcmanus 2016 President $0 $0 POULTNEY VALLEY SNOWMOBILE DEVILS INC
Bruce Fielding 2016 Captain $0 $0 MANCHESTER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION
Dan Lyman 2016 Director $0 $0 POULTNEY VALLEY SNOWMOBILE DEVILS INC
Tim Loomis 2016 Trail Coordinat $0 $0 POULTNEY VALLEY SNOWMOBILE DEVILS INC
Norman Messier 2014 Secretary $0 $0 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Patrice Strifert 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 EDUCATIONAL PRAXIS INC
Maura Collins 2016 Board Chair $0 $0 PATHWAYS VERMONT INC
David A Morse 2016 First Vice President $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Russ Bennett 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Terry Jackson 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Randy Bigelow 2016 President $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
William Duggan 2014 Director $0 $0 MEMBERS 1ST CREDIT UNION
Roger J Desabrais Jr 2016 Membership Chairman $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Potter Stewart 2016 Director $0 $0 STONE TRUST INC
Michael Murphy 2016 Director $0 $0 STONE TRUST 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.