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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Karl Smith 2015 Governor $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS LODGE NO 527 LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Jason Porter 2015 Jr Governor $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS LODGE NO 527 LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Alan Nadeau 2016 President $0 $0 SPORTSMANS CLUB OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INCORPORATED
Keith Tyrrell 2015 Trustee $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS LODGE NO 527 LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Thomas Sharpley 2016 Director $0 $0 THE ETHAN ALLEN HOMESTEAD MUSEUM INC
John Jacob 2016 Vice President $0 $0 SPORTSMANS CLUB OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INCORPORATED
Kevin Mclaughlin 2015 Trustee $0 $0 DENNY FAMILY FOUNDATION
John Dumville 2016 Secretary $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE MORRILL HOMESTEAD INC
Jean Haigh 2014 President $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
Larry Caruso 2014 Adjutant $0 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Mr John Roskopf 2014 Assistant Treasurer $0 $51,401 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
David Blittersdorf 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Mark Carbone 2016 Board President $0 $0 OUR COMMUNITY CARES CAMP
Tim Chamberlin 2016 Member $0 $0 MOUNT MANSFIELD COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Melissa Danforth 2016 Secretary $0 $0 SPORTSMANS CLUB OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INCORPORATED
Kurt Schmoke 2016 Trustee $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Roger Cartee 2015 President-El $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Janet Cartee 2015 Secretary $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
David Bronner 2014 Director $0 $0 VOTE HEMP
Milton G Valera 2016 Trustee $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Wiliam Gardyne 2015 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Durward Starr 2015 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Craig Ferreira 2016 Director $0 $0 FOUR WINDS NATURE INSTITUTEINCORPORATED
Donovan Quarmby 2015 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Candy Moot 2015 Director $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.