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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Joe Wright 2014 Director/Member $0 $0 GOOD STEWARD FOUNDATION OF MORRISVILLE VERMONT INC
John Maitland 2014 Board Member, Chair $0 $0 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES
William Reedy 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VSC FOUNDATION INC
Paul J Fonteyn 2015 Director $0 $0 NORTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE INCORPORATED
Kyayn Page 2015 Member $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY PARENT-CHILD CENTER INC
Jona Farwell 2015 Member $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY PARENT-CHILD CENTER INC
Robert Clark 2015 President $0 $0 NORTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE INCORPORATED
Rick Bjorn 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF COURT DIVERSION PROGRAMS INC
Dr Octaviana Trujillo 2016 Board Member $0 $0 THE GLOBAL DIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
Katherine Foster 2015 Director $0 $0 NORTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE INCORPORATED
Miche Modiba 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF COURT DIVERSION PROGRAMS INC
Hillary Danis 2016 Vice President $0 $0 ESSEX RESCUE INC
David Saturley 2015 Secretary $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Dennis Bisio 2015 Director $0 $0 SUGAR HOUSE HILL PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOC
Ashley Williams 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 ESSEX RESCUE INC
Randall Terk 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 EAST DOVER VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Phil Hammond 2015 Board Member $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Louis Weiner Md 2014 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CANCER RESEARCH ORGANIZATION INC
Edith Brown 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ST JOSEPHS DWELLING PLACE
Ryan Shields 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ESSEX RESCUE INC
Nico Bekker 2015 President $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Pj Skeehan 2015 Board Member $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Patrick Sheehan 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF COURT DIVERSION PROGRAMS INC
Peggy Mccabe 2016 Director At Large $0 $0 ESSEX RESCUE INC
David Landry 2015 Board Member $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

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.