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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Ryan Lilly Mpa 2015 Director, Va Maine Healthc $0 $0 VETERANS EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOC OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC
Darald Moulton 2017 Director $0 $0 CHARLESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Kerry Gendron 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CREATIVE LIVES INC
Dean Pierce 2015 Vice President $0 $0 WONDERFEET KIDS MUSEUM
R Brooks Robey Md 2015 Assoc Chief Of Staff, R&D, $0 $0 VETERANS EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOC OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC
Brian Murphy Esq Until Dec 2016 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Yael Friedman Until Dec 2016 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Gretchen Gerzina 2014 Director $0 $0 MARLBORO COLLEGE
Dart Everett 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO DEVELOPMENT CREDIT CORPORATION REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS I
Greg Ogrinc Md 2015 Assoc Chief Of Staff, Educ $0 $0 VETERANS EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOC OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC
Ted Adler Until Dec 2016 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Jessica F Fike 2016 Secretary $0 $0 PURPLE HEARTS REUNITED INC
Anne Lezak Resigned 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Tiffany Renuad 2016 President $0 $0 802 RUGBY INC
Danielle Ocker 2015 Acting Direct, Mht Vamc $0 $0 VETERANS EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOC OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC
Bidur Dahal Resigned 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Reeva Murphy 2016 Co-Chair $0 $0 BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE COUNCIL INC
John Collins 2015 Director, Va Central Weste $0 $0 VETERANS EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOC OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC
Betsy Rathbun-Gunn 2016 Co-Chair $0 $0 BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE COUNCIL INC
Steve Ross 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT CONGREGATIONAL HOME INC
Eddie Gale 2016 Secretary $0 $0 BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE COUNCIL INC
Winthrop Conrad 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
Alred A Montoya Jr 2015 Director, Va Maine Healthcare System $0 $0 VETERANS EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOC OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC
Elaine Collins 2016 Director $0 $0 VSC FOUNDATION INC
Consie West 2016 Trustee $0 $0 SMOKEY HOUSE CENTER

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.