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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Harold I Pratt 2015 Clerk $0 $0 WATERFORD SPRINGS CORP
Beth Jones 2016 President $0 $0 GRACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL CORPORATION
Jerry Smith 2017 Vice President $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA FARMERS MARKET INC
Mathew Clegg 2015 Director $0 $0 VT LIFE & HEALTH INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION
William Michaelcheck 2014 Trustee; Vice Chair [From 07/2014] $0 $0 WORLD LEARNING INC
Marshal Morton 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
Mike Coyle 2016 Asst. Captain $0 $0 FERRISBURGH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Lawrence Whitmire 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 GRACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL CORPORATION
Mark Redmond 2015 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT POLICE CANINE ASSOCIATION INC
James Gorham 2017 Vice President $0 $0 PB AND J INC
Wade Labrecque 2015 President $0 $0 VERMONT POLICE CANINE ASSOCIATION INC
Robert Ryan 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT POLICE CANINE ASSOCIATION INC
Ken Lemner 2016 Captain $0 $0 FERRISBURGH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Sis Capeless 2017 Vp $0 $0 VERMONT STATE WOMENS GOLF ASSOCIATION
Jan Gordon 2016 Secretary $0 $0 SOUTH LONDONDERRY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC
Theresa Larocque 2015 Vice President $0 $0 SCHOOL STREET MONTESSORI
Sharine Witttkopp Phd 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WOMEN IN MEDICINE INC
Katie Lovely 2015 Secretary And Treasurer $0 $0 SCHOOL STREET MONTESSORI
Jennifer Boucher 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 GRACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL CORPORATION
Ray Sears 2015 President/Trustee $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Chelsea Condos 2016 Director $0 $0 BURLINGTON BUSINESS ASSOCIATION INC
C Patterson 2016 Lieutenant $0 $0 FERRISBURGH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Paula Laroche 2016 Secretary $0 $0 GRACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL CORPORATION
Michael Harris 2016 President $0 $0 LYNDON RESCUE INC
Jan Clausing 2016 Secretary $0 $0 LYNDON RESCUE 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.