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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Matt Reisdorff 2015 President $0 $0 GRAND ISLE RESCUE INC
James Ehlers 2016 Director $0 $0 RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND INC
Bonnie Grover 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 T R I P DANCE COMPANY
Beth Stighler 2016 Director $0 $0 RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND INC
Garrett Wolski 2015 Past Secretary/Training Officer $0 $0 GRAND ISLE RESCUE INC
Jim Feinson 2015 Trustee, Boa $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC
Sheila Reed 2016 Director $0 $0 RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND INC
Kristina Brines 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC
Matthew Fargo 2015 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC
Colby Cheever 2014 Training & Equipment Officer $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Jeff Perkins 2016 First Vice President $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Shirley Conrad 2016 Trustee Emerita $0 $0 BRADFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY
Paul Gates 2016 Trustee $0 $0 FRANKLIN HOMESTEAD INC
Ali Dieng 2016 Director $0 $0 RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND INC
David Winslow 2015 Trustee $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Paul Hennessey 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
Mildred Austin 2016 Secretary $0 $0 JILL E HARRINGTON HANZALIK MEMORIAL FUND INC
Michelle Eglintine 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 ASCUTNEY VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSOCIATION INC
Ian Carleton 2014 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Dan Osman 2014 Camp Director $0 $0 CAMP THORPE INC
Donald Blanchette 2016 Vice President $0 $0 ALMOST HOME DOG RESCUE AND REHAB INC
Elizabeth Malone 2015 Board Member $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Judi Mccormick 2014 Trustee $0 $0 SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INCORPORATED
Rebecca Majoya 2014 President & Ceo $0 $0 THE MENTOR CONNECTOR
Carol Kopf 2014 Media Director $0 $0 AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH STUDIES PROJECT 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.