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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Sherrill L Gould 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT EASTERN STAR HOME INC
Deb Ellis 2015 Director $0 $0 AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP
Ellen Fisher 2015 President $0 $0 ARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE INC
Debra Shapiro Md 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WOMEN IN MEDICINE INC
Jane Korey 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Thomas Crosby 2014 Vice President $0 $0 RECOVERY HOUSE INC
Dave Pellitier 2014 Treasurrer $0 $0 MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CENTRAL VERMONT INC
Kristin Prior 2015 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK
Kyle Bostwick 2016 Director $0 $0 BURLINGTON BUSINESS ASSOCIATION INC
Jeanne Matos 2016 President $0 $0 LUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Nicole Sitkin Bs 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WOMEN IN MEDICINE INC
Peter Mallary 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC
Sara Newmark 2016 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Donna Van Fleet 2016 Secretary $0 $0 LUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Joan Walsh 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC
Natalia Kline 2014 Trustee $0 $0 SMOKEY HOUSE CENTER
Bill Wager 2016 Chief $0 $0 FERRISBURGH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Jason Beaulac 2015 Fire Captain $0 $0 ALBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Dr Steven Sinding 2014 President $0 $0 MANCHESTER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Meme Sabelberg 2016 Director $0 $0 LUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Tyler Gotshell 2015 Chief $0 $0 ALBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Karen Lewis 2014 Trustee $0 $0 PEACHAM HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Kara Toles Md 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WOMEN IN MEDICINE INC
Craig Hervey 2016 Director $0 $0 LUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Jeff Cobb 2015 Executive Co $0 $0 ALBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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.