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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Rachel Lynch 2016 Secretary $0 $0 POULTNEY RESCUE SQUAD INC
Tim Stone 2015 Trail Master $0 $0 SNO-BEES INC
Bob Pembroke 2015 Website $0 $0 SNO-BEES INC
Seth Richardson 2016 Director - Trp B $0 $0 VERMONT TROOPERS ASSOCIATION INC
Owen Ballinger 2016 Director - Hq $0 $0 VERMONT TROOPERS ASSOCIATION INC
Ann Hargraves 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES INC
John Plante 2015 Director $0 $0 SNO-BEES INC
Peggy Kannestine 2016 Trustee $0 $0 THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES INC
Greg Blake 2015 Director $0 $0 SNO-BEES INC
Lionel Cyr 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 SNO-BEES INC
Bud Handy 2014 Board Member $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Amber L Barber Esq 2014 President $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
Michael Oneil 2016 President $0 $0 VERMONT TROOPERS ASSOCIATION INC
Bob Campo 2015 Director $0 $0 SNO-BEES INC
Victoria Jas 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF
Pete Fournier 2015 Past President $0 $0 BARRE AREA DEVELOPMENT INC
Charles Lief 2016 Secretary $0 $0 THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES INC
Al Flory 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 BARRE AREA DEVELOPMENT INC
Jonathan Shea 2015 Secretary $0 $0 BARRE AREA DEVELOPMENT INC
Bonnie Ferro 2016 Director $0 $0 MOBIUS INC
Steve Karcher 2016 Trustee $0 $0 THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES INC
Robert Lord 2015 Director $0 $0 BARRE AREA DEVELOPMENT INC
Stephen Martin 2015 Director $0 $0 BARRE AREA DEVELOPMENT INC
Todd Wilkins 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT TROOPERS ASSOCIATION INC
Keith Paxman 2015 Director $0 $0 BARRE AREA DEVELOPMENT 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.