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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lee Moore 2016 President $0 $0 RANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Elisa Lucozzi 2015 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
Aaron Cochran 2015 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
Duane Peterson 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Emily Carrier 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 CALEDONIA SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
Bill Haines 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WASHINGTON CENTRAL FRIENDS OF EDUCATION INC
Shelly Blodgett 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRADFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY
Karen Liebermann 2016 Vice President $0 $0 WASHINGTON CENTRAL FRIENDS OF EDUCATION INC
Greg Drew 2014 President $0 $0 VERMONT CRAFTS COUNCIL
William Beckim 2016 President $0 $0 DREAM CENTER INC
Jennifer Boyer 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CRAFTS COUNCIL
Bob Wright 2016 Secretary $0 $0 RANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Sandy Ducharme 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT CRAFTS COUNCIL
Peter Reed 2016 Tresurer $0 $0 RANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Steven Misasi 2014 Past Preside $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Cort Richardson 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 WASHINGTON CENTRAL FRIENDS OF EDUCATION INC
Jim Fecteau 2014 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT CRAFTS COUNCIL
Chad Schmidt 2014 Trustee $0 $0 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Dano Weisbord 2016 President, Director $0 $0 NINEVAH FOUNDATION
Patrick French 2016 Director $0 $0 RANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Jessica Putnam-Phillips 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CRAFTS COUNCIL
Jon Soter 2014 Captain $0 $0 FERRISBURGH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Keith Barrett 2014 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Steve Gibbs 2014 Member $0 $0 VERMONT COMMONS SCHOOL
Sarah Kinter 2016 President $0 $0 WASHINGTON CENTRAL FRIENDS OF EDUCATION 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.