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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Mandy Koskinen 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC
John Medose 2014 Secretary $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Robert Pearl 2016 2Nd Vice Com $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Dave Kedzierski 2015 Director $0 $0 ESSEX AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Matt Clark 2015 Director $0 $0 ESSEX AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
George Long 2014 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION FOUNDATION TRUST
Fred Bates 2014 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY AUDUBON SOCIETY
Ron Bower 2014 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND WEST NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC
Danny Duchaine 2016 Adjutant $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Carney Daniels 2015 Director $0 $0 ESSEX AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Abi Sessions 2016 Chair $0 $0 JOHN W GRAHAM EMERGENCY SHELTER SERVICES INC
Dan Forcier 2015 Director $0 $0 ESSEX AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Michael Soule 2016 Chaplain $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Rob Young 2015 Director $0 $0 ESSEX AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Fraser Macdonald 2015 Director $0 $0 ESSEX AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Dan Smith 2016 Secretary $0 $8,283 J WARREN & LOIS MCCLURE FOUNDATION INC
Dr Lauren Schneski 2016 President-Elect $0 $0 VERMONT VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Sean Haggerty 2015 Director $0 $0 ESSEX AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Marty Strange 2015 Director $0 $0 RANDOLPH HOUSE HOLDINGS INC
Marybeth Nuovo 2016 Member $0 $0 LYRIC THEATRE COMPANY
Doug Viehmann 2016 Facilities C $0 $0 LYRIC THEATRE COMPANY
Neil Christopher 2016 1St Vice Co $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Janet Mclaughlin 2016 Director $0 $32,419 J WARREN & LOIS MCCLURE FOUNDATION INC
Christopher Brown 2016 Membership C $0 $0 LYRIC THEATRE COMPANY
Heidi Hall 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY HOUSING PROJECT I

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.