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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Michael Dooling 2016 Board Vice President $0 $0 OUR COMMUNITY CARES CAMP
Rebecca Otey 2016 President $0 $0 LINCOLN CO-OPERATIVE PRE-SCHOOL INC
Luke Mclaughry 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST
Curtis Ingham Koren 2016 President $0 $0 VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST
Laurence C Jost 2015 President $0 $0 ALPHA GAMMA RHO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
Brendin Beaulieu-Jones 2016 Trustee $0 $0 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST
Walden J Rooney 2015 Vice President $0 $0 ALPHA GAMMA RHO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
Andrew Higley 2015 Secretary $0 $0 ALPHA GAMMA RHO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
Laura Newman 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 LINCOLN CO-OPERATIVE PRE-SCHOOL INC
Ethan Frechette 2016 Chair $0 $0 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST
Kevin T Rooney 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 ALPHA GAMMA RHO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
Michel Weppler 2015 Trustee $0 $0 BARBARA WILLIAMS SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Scott Hesser 2016 Secretary $0 $0 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST
Debra Burner 2015 Trustee $0 $0 BARBARA WILLIAMS SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Brad Bebedict 2015 Trustee $0 $0 BARBARA WILLIAMS SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Anthony M Civale 2014 Term Trustee $0 $0 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
David Sanville 2015 Cfo $0 $18,619 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Sudie Watson 2014 Board Member $0 $0 WOODSTOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Robert Davenport 2016 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Tim Mcnamara 2016 Trustee $0 $0 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST
Pall Spera 2015 Trustee $0 $0 BARBARA WILLIAMS SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Patrick Galvin 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 AIKIDO OF CHAMPLAIN VALLEY INC
Jeff Tucker 2016 President $0 $0 AMERICAN COUNCIL OF ENGINEERING COMPANIES OF VERMONT INC
Drew Foster 2015 Board Member $0 $0 AIKIDO OF CHAMPLAIN VALLEY INC
Melanie Kessler 2016 Job Coordina $0 $0 LINCOLN CO-OPERATIVE PRE-SCHOOL 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.