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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
William W Higginbotham Ii 2014 Assistant Treasurer $0 $22,885 CRUDEN BAY RISK RETENTION GROUP INC
Ben Weiss 2014 President $0 $0 MANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC
Brian Shupe 2016 Executive Dir. $0 $0 FEDERATION OF STATE CONSERVATION VOTER LEAGUES INC
Melanie Slocum 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ALMOST HOME DOG RESCUE AND REHAB INC
Elizabeth Ropp 2016 Director $0 $0 RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND INC
Linda Eldredge 2015 Director $0 $0 RANDOLPH CO INC
John Moran 2016 Director $0 $0 RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND INC
Brenda Erickson 2015 Director $0 $0 RANDOLPH CO INC
William Eastman 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 LORDS WAY CHURCH OF CHRIST INC
Larz Barber 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Denel Mcintire 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WOODSTOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Marion Harlow 2015 Secretary $0 $0 LORDS WAY CHURCH OF CHRIST INC
Natalie Kolok 2015 Chair And Treasurer $0 $0 SLAMT1D INC
Bishop Christopher Coyne 2016 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
Mike Barrett 2015 Secretary $0 $0 SLAMT1D INC
Reverend Renaldo Azotea 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VETERANS PLACE INC
Nanette Stevens 2014 Board Treasu $0 $0 LYRIC THEATRE COMPANY
Robin Shover 2016 President $0 $0 PASSION 4 PAWS COMPANY
John N Bumgarner 2014 Research Dir. For Security $0 $0 UNITED STATES CYBER CONSEQUENCESUNIT
Anita Alic Vp 2015 172 Summit View Rd, Ludlow, Vt 05149 $0 $0 BLACK RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Liam O'Farrell 2015 Director $0 $0 SLAMT1D INC
Ron Sargent 2014 Director $0 $0 SOUTH BURLINGTON YOUTH BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL INC
Anna Noonan 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PROGRAM FOR QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE INC
Peter Owens Resigned 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BTVIGNITE INC
Susan Gordon 2014 Director $0 $0 STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 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.