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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Marilyn Reap 2015 Director $0 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
Don Rendall 2015 Director $0 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
Doug Conley 2016 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
William Shearer 2015 Director $0 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
Rb Klinkenberg 2015 Director $0 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
John Mcinerney 2016 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Rick Penney 2016 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
George Churchill 2016 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Scott Willard 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
Dana Hudson 2016 Director $0 $0 FOUR WINDS NATURE INSTITUTEINCORPORATED
Jason Racine 2016 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Lisa Rovner 2015 President $0 $0 AIA VERMONT
Claire Benedict 2014 Board $0 $0 MONTPELIER DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
Douglas R Horne 2016 Trustee $0 $0 THE WOODSTOCK FOUNDATION INC
Bill Lucci 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY COURT DIVERSION AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER INC
John C Bennett 2016 Secretary $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Diantha Korzun 2015 Director $0 $0 AIA VERMONT
Leo Shatney 2016 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Lisa Smith Racine 2016 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Richard Deane 2015 Secretary $0 $0 AIA VERMONT
Kevin Racek 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 AIA VERMONT
Gary Erickson 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY COURT DIVERSION AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER INC
Lori Before 2016 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Peter Kelley 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF VERMONT INC
John Casella 2017 Director $0 $0 ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF VERMONT 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.