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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Denis Backus 2016 Adjutant And Service Offic $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION CLUB
Ann Brazier 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT WHOLESALE BEVERAGE ASSOCIATION
Jackie Gauthier 2014 Exalted Ruler $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Tim Hinman 2014 Director $0 $0 DRIFTDUSTERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC
Wanda Boomer 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 ORLEANS-ESSEX VNA & HOSPICE INC
Susan Crampton 2015 Secretary $0 $0 TWIN VALLEY SENIORS INC
Leslie Roth 2016 Board $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Clare Buckley 2015 Executive Direc $0 $0 VERMONT WHOLESALE BEVERAGE ASSOCIATION
Elizabeth Richards 2014 Trustee $0 $0 HARRIS HILL SKI JUMP INC
John Medose 2016 Board $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Sandy Harris 2014 Trustee $0 $0 HARRIS HILL SKI JUMP INC
Andrew Macfarland 2014 Trustee $0 $0 HARRIS HILL SKI JUMP INC
Bethany Thies 2016 Director $0 $0 FOOD CONNECTS
Elly Wood 2016 Board Chair $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Beth Carr 2016 Secretary $0 $0 BRANDON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
June Bohler 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 BRANDON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
Cj Flynee 2015 Member $0 $0 TWIN VALLEY SENIORS INC
Stacey Doucette 2016 Borad Member $0 $0 BRANDON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
Linda Henzel 2015 Board $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE WINOOSKI RIVER INCORPORATED
Tim Lewis 2014 Director $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
George Merkel 2014 Director $0 $0 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER VERGENNES INC
Jesse Bashaw 2014 Captain & Training Officer $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Emily Rappold 2015 Member $0 $0 TWIN VALLEY SENIORS INC
Patricia Moulton 2016 Director $0 $0 VSC FOUNDATION INC
Julie Robichaux 2016 Secretary $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL 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.