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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jeff Schuman 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE WINOOSKI RIVER INCORPORATED
Jeanne Keller 2015 Board $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE WINOOSKI RIVER INCORPORATED
Paul Garcia 2014 Chaplain $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Polly Wheeler 2016 Board $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Abbey Willard 2015 Board $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE WINOOSKI RIVER INCORPORATED
Jared Carpenter 2015 Vice President $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE WINOOSKI RIVER INCORPORATED
Colin Mccaffrey 2015 President $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE WINOOSKI RIVER INCORPORATED
Ransom Conant 2015 Board Member $0 $0 DAIRYVISION VERMONT INC
Steven Rappold 2015 Member $0 $0 TWIN VALLEY SENIORS INC
Matthew Derr 2014 Vice Chair $0 $0 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INDEPENDENT COLLEGES
Jim Mccaffrey 2015 Vice President $0 $0 FALLS AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Charlotte Osterlund 2015 Board Memeber $0 $0 GALLERY AT THE VAULT INCORPORATED
James Comar 2016 Board Pres $0 $0 MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
Alan Fowler 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 FALLS AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Samara Mays 2016 Board $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Barbara Kasper 2015 Secretary $0 $0 FALLS AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Michael Obuchowski 2015 Emeritus $0 $0 FALLS AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Charlie Tipper 2014 President $0 $0 NEW MORAN INC
Matthew Pierce 2016 Director $0 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
Charlie Jarras 2015 Emeritus $0 $0 FALLS AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Donna Sherlaw 2016 Participant Sector Represe $0 $0 CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Fred Wilbur 2015 Member $0 $0 TWIN VALLEY SENIORS INC
Carol Larue 2016 Board/Officer $0 $0 RICHMOND FOOD SHELF AND THRIFT STORE
Jay Isakson 2016 Participant Sector Represe $0 $0 CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Priscilla Kleespies 2014 President $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY

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.