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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Brian Keefe 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN WALDORF SCHOOL
Jean Patoine 2016 Sargent Of Arms $0 $0 UNITED STATES BOWLING CONGRESS INC
Bernard Chenette Jr 2014 Board Member $0 $0 GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN
Alfred Letourneau 2014 Vice Chair $0 $0 GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN
Carolyn Rice 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CAPTIVE INSURANCE EDUCATION INC
Greg Leroy 2016 Director $0 $0 BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INC
Thomas Bachman 2014 Board Member $0 $0 GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN
Kerry Hill 2014 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Paul Sackevich 2014 Director $0 $0 GREATER FALLS WARMING SHELTER
Mary Hepburn 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC
Pamela Lord 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN PERFORMING ARTS INC
Kim Kie 2014 Board Chair $0 $0 GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN
Joan Cnossen 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
Peter Mcnichol 2016 Director $0 $0 BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INC
Lisa Jenison 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
John Bauer 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN PERFORMING ARTS INC
James Hester 2016 Member $0 $0 MONROE PLACE CORPORATION
Tim Shea 2016 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Richard Pritsky 2016 Pres/Treasurer $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN PERFORMING ARTS INC
Thomas Kavet 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 INNER FIRE
David Spencer 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 BAKERSFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
David King 2016 Director $0 $0 BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INC
Charlie Sincerbeaux 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Philene Taormina 2014 Director $0 $0 HUNGER FREE VERMONT
Geoffrey Hesslink 2016 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP

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.