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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Ron Poe 2014 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY SERVICES INC
Becky Cook 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Lynn Troy 2015 Trustee $0 $0 WATERFORD SPRINGS CORP
Matthew Rand 2015 Vice-Preside $0 $0 COCHRANS SKI CLUB INC
Jason Gifford 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 COCHRANS SKI CLUB INC
Steve Smith 2015 President $0 $0 WATERFORD SPRINGS CORP
Deed Mccollum 2015 Trustee $0 $0 WATERFORD SPRINGS CORP
Brian Kessler 2015 Equipment Ma $0 $0 COCHRANS SKI CLUB INC
Melody Maurer 2015 Trustee $0 $0 WATERFORD SPRINGS CORP
Joey Bergstein 2016 Director $0 $0 BURLINGTON BUSINESS ASSOCIATION INC
Robin Ishak 2015 Trustee $0 $0 WATERFORD SPRINGS CORP
Mike Krupka 2015 Vice Chai $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Patricia Robertson Md 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WOMEN IN MEDICINE INC
Jennifer Ankner-Edelstein 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Roy Kohnke 2015 Assistant Clerk $0 $0 WATERFORD SPRINGS CORP
Ronald Alvarez 2014 Trustee $0 $0 STRATTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL & SKI FOUNDATION INC
Daria Holcomb 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY GARDEN NETWORK INC
Courtney Dobyns 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Diana Coryat 2015 Director $0 $0 AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP
Rebecca Mccormick 2015 Board Member $0 $0 ONION RIVER CROSSROADS INC
Ruth Goldberg 2015 Director $0 $0 AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP
Rodney Churchill 2016 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT EASTERN STAR HOME INC
Jesus Hernandez 2015 Director $0 $0 AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP
Sara Beth St Peter 2014 Director/Cha $0 $0 RHYTHM OF THE REIN INC
Catherine Murphy 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP

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.