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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Rebekah Mercer 2016 Trustee $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Patrick L Mcconathy 2014 Term Trustee $0 $0 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Linda Poole 2014 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER
Whitney Debevoise 2016 Past Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Gerry J Mckee 2014 Assistant Treasurer $0 $47,429 BROADLINE RISK RETENTION GROUP INC
Cory Frehsee 2016 Board Member $0 $0 AMERICAN COUNCIL OF ENGINEERING COMPANIES OF VERMONT INC
Patrick Goggin 2014 Director $0 $0 VOTE HEMP
Chris Nunn 2016 Trustee $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Kweku Toure 2016 Director $0 $0 KOPKIND COLONY
Garland Tucker Iii 2016 Trustee $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Carol Hodges Ms Rn-C 2015 President $0 $0 ANA-VERMONT INC
Meredith Roberts Phd Bsn Rn 2015 Vice President $0 $0 ANA-VERMONT INC
Christine Zilski 2016 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF-ADVOCATES INC
George Hemmens 2013 Member $0 $0 GRASS ROOTS ART AND COMMUNITY EFFORTS
Nik Znamenskis 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 ANA-VERMONT INC
John W Childs 2016 Trustee $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Huzon Stewart 2014 Southern Area $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Mike Macduff 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 SPORTSMANS CLUB OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INCORPORATED
Jennifer L Foster 2016 Trustee $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Sharon Snider 2015 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA ADULT DAY SERVICES
David C Johnson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Paul Collins 2015 Jr Past Govnr $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS LODGE NO 527 LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Phyllis L Drury 2016 President $0 $0 THE ETHAN ALLEN HOMESTEAD MUSEUM INC
David Kinney 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS LODGE NO 527 LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Sandra E Gale 2016 Trustee $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION 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.