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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Rahul Kushwaha 2015 Director $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Tracy Martin 2016 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM ARTS COUNCIL INC
Fred Lord Ph D 2015 Director $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Mark Nicholson 2016 Chair $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Michael Burak 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Shawn Bartlett 2016 President $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN INTERNATIONAL INC
Judge Walter M Morris 2015 Director $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Leslie Sanborn 2015 Director $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Michael Nobels 2016 Director $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Jeremy P Schrauf 2015 Director $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Jason Galipeau 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN INTERNATIONAL INC
Terra Arguimbau 2014 Trusttee $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND
Robert Patterson 2016 Director $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Kate Mcgowan 2016 President $0 $0 UNITED WAYS OF VERMONT
Barry Simays 2015 Director $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Paul Stanilonis Md 2015 Risk Mgt Cha $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Rob Schultz 2016 Vice President $0 $0 UNITED WAYS OF VERMONT
James Tatro 2015 Exploring Of $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Robert E Treat Dvm 2015 Director $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Brent Mccoy 2016 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM ARTS COUNCIL INC
Tawnya Kristen 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 UNITED WAYS OF VERMONT
George Beach 2015 Director $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
John Boutin 2015 Director $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Robert Pope 2016 Director $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Carmen Derby 2016 Secretary $0 $0 UNITED WAYS OF VERMONT

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.