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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Shane Mccormack 2016 Member $0 $0 LYRIC THEATRE COMPANY
Dr Millie Armstrong 2016 Past President $0 $0 VERMONT VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Erik Schwarz 2015 Vice Chairman $0 $0 CAPITAL SOCCER CLUB INC
Heidi Hall 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 CAPITAL SOCCER CLUB INC
Alisa Gravitz 2015 Trustee, Chair $0 $0 UNDERDOG FOUNDATION
Dr Rick Baum 2016 Avma Delegate $0 $0 VERMONT VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Drummond Pike 2015 Trustee $0 $0 UNDERDOG FOUNDATION
Robert Hutchins 2015 Director $0 $0 BARRE AREA DEVELOPMENT INC
Rick Hommel 2017 Director $0 $0 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT CREDIT UNIONS INC
Anne Janeway 2015 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
Fr Steve Dunn 2014 Secretary $0 $0 PASSIONIST FOUNDATION OF THE STATE OF VERMONT INC
Phil Schuman 2014 Vice Chair $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Iris Berezin 2014 Director $0 $0 OUR COURT
Gerry Cincotta 2015 2Nd Vice President - Travel $0 $0 ESSEX AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Bob Day 2016 President $0 $0 CASTLETON COMMUNITY SENIORS INC
Marie Speer 2014 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Anne Bugbee 2013 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Terra Arguimbau 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC
Samantha Spence 2016 President $0 $0 OAK HILL CHILDRENS CENTER
Cheryl Parker O'Connor 2014 Trustee $0 $0 SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INCORPORATED
James Mitsche 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 GREENWOOD SCHOOL INC
Casey Cota 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT ACADEMY
Julie Miller-Johnson 2015 Director $0 $0 ESSEX AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Rabbi Jarah Greenfield 2014 Director $0 $0 GREATER BENNINGTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Bruce Garrapy 2015 Director $0 $0 ESSEX AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION 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.