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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Susan Zeller 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 KELLOGG HUBBARD LIBRARY
Sarah Peluso 2016 Director $0 $0 EASTVIEW AT MIDDLEBURY
Dan Perron 2016 Farm Bureau $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Lindy Biggs 2016 Trustee $0 $0 KELLOGG HUBBARD LIBRARY
David Warner 2016 Farm Bureau $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Jacques Beaulieu 2015 Director/Vice President $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY FIELD DAYS INC 195 NO MAIN ST
Tammy Merchant 2015 Director/Treasurer $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY FIELD DAYS INC 195 NO MAIN ST
Lindy Birch 2016 Farm Bureau $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Terry Kline 2016 Vice President $0 $0 BRANDON CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
Rev Richard White 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRANDON CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
Barry Aleshnick 2014 President Acting $0 $0 VERMONT INDEPENDENT MEDIA INC
Lorraine Pilon Until Nov 16 2016 Trustee $0 $0 KELLOGG HUBBARD LIBRARY
Roy Amey 2016 Farm Bureau $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Sharon Eaton 2016 President $0 $0 RIVERSIDE RESCUE
Dan Hinton 2016 Director At $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Catherine Dorr 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 RIVERSIDE RESCUE
Betsy Glynn 2016 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Katherine H Dickenson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
David Daniels 2016 Director At $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Ron Holm 2016 Secretary $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Robert Bliss 2016 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Rachel Muse 2016 Secretary $0 $0 KELLOGG HUBBARD LIBRARY
Chris Keyser 2016 Chairman $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Julie Brochu 2016 Director At $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Carie Tarte 2014 Secretary $0 $0 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER VERGENNES 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.