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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Augusta Bartlett 2016 Director $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Jenna Lapachinski 2017 Director $0 $0 PRESERVATION BURLINGTON INC
Castle Freeman 2014 Secretary $0 $0 NEW BROOK VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSOCIATION INC
Roger Phelps 2014 President $0 $0 SOUTH BURLINGTON YOUTH BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL INC
Erika Weir 2016 Co-Chair $0 $0 CHILDRENS DAY CARE CENTER INC
Robert Litchfield 2014 Trustee $0 $0 NEW BROOK VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSOCIATION INC
Nelli Sargsyan 2016 Secretary $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Julie Sweethill 2016 Director $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Archer Mayor 2014 Trustee $0 $0 NEW BROOK VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSOCIATION INC
Thomas Brooks 2014 Trustee $0 $0 NEW BROOK VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSOCIATION INC
Geoff Glaspie 2016 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Kelly Schavone 2016 Co-Chair $0 $0 CHILDRENS DAY CARE CENTER INC
Norm Lawley 2014 Trustee $0 $0 NEW BROOK VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSOCIATION INC
Kirstin Edelglass 2016 Co-President $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Elle James 2016 Director $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Travis Jarvis 2015 President $0 $0 FIRST STEP RECOVERY HOUSE INC
Timmy Bressack 2015 Secretary $0 $0 FIRST STEP RECOVERY HOUSE INC
Mary Ann Blaisdell 2014 Director $0 $0 SARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER
Kim Moore 2015 Loyal Knight $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Melissa Hersh 2016 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Gretchen Webber 2016 Director $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Renee Cruz 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 FIRST STEP RECOVERY HOUSE INC
Chris Brewster 2015 Shareholder $0 $0 FIRST STEP RECOVERY HOUSE INC
Liz Lewis 2016 Member $0 $0 CHILDRENS DAY CARE CENTER INC
Bernadette Oneil 2015 Director $0 $0 FIRST STEP RECOVERY HOUSE 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.