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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Drew Totten 2014 Vice Chairman $0 $0 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Steven Stata 2014 President $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Rhonda Gadhue 2016 Member At La $0 $0 LINCOLN CO-OPERATIVE PRE-SCHOOL INC
Kathy Folley 2015 Secretary $0 $0 YOUNG WRITERS PROJECT INC
Lyle Jepson 2014 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Rob Starkey 2016 Trustee $0 $0 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST
Natalie S Bober 2014 Director $0 $0 JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
Dunja Ziomek 2014 Secretary $0 $0 PRESCHOOL AT FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC
Christina Volgyesi 2014 Secretary $0 $0 VOTE HEMP
Troy Paradee 2016 President $0 $0 BRISTOL RECREATION CLUB
Michael Boudreau 2015 Secretary $0 $0 HOPE GROWS COMMUNITY FARM PROGRAM INC
Kenneth Bighton 2015 Director $0 $0 HOPE GROWS COMMUNITY FARM PROGRAM INC
Stephen Lawe 2016 Trustee $0 $0 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST
Mindy Parisi 2015 Acting President $0 $0 GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT
Susan Romans 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT
Susan Bradford 2016 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Porter Knight 2016 Vice-President $0 $0 BRISTOL RECREATION CLUB
Sara Nevin 2015 Director $0 $0 GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT
Sara Korrow 2015 Director $0 $0 GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT
Juan Camilo Vanegas 2016 Secretary $0 $0 MEDLIFE
Molly Gleason 2015 Director $0 $0 GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT
Kristen Gadbois 2015 Director $0 $0 GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT
Hon Peter Hall 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Jed Putney 2015 Trustee $0 $0 SHARON ACADEMY
Pam Marcotte 2014 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST REGION OF THE CONSTRUCTION SPECIFICATION INS 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.