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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jeffrey J Norway 2014 Past Preside $0 $0 VERMONT ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION INC
Perez C Ehrich 2014 Past Vice Chair $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
James Buell 2016 Clerk/Treasurer $0 $0 UNIVERSITY MEDICAL EDUCATION
Marc Randolph 2016 Director $0 $0 1 FOR THE PLANET INC
Veda Lyon 2015 Board Member $0 $0 CIRCLE INC
Dave Doubleday 2016 Chairman $0 $0 WOODSTOCK RECREATION CENTER INC
Gary Marvel 2015 Board Member $0 $0 CIRCLE INC
Tom Emery 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WOODSTOCK RECREATION CENTER INC
Emily Meyer 2015 Board Member $0 $0 CIRCLE INC
Laurie Noyes 2015 Board Member $0 $0 CIRCLE INC
Mandy Bean 2014 Parent Director $0 $0 THE CHILD CARE CENTER IN NORWICH INC
Mat Robitaille 2016 Member $0 $0 MILTON COMMUNITY YOUTH COALITION INC
Chuck Vanderstreet 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WOODSTOCK RECREATION CENTER INC
Kristine Stratton 2016 Director $0 $0 1 FOR THE PLANET INC
Carolyn Evarts 2014 Director $0 $0 BURLINGTON AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Robert Manning 2016 Chairman $0 $0 FAIREWINDS ENERGY EDUCATION CORP
Jeff Rosenberger 2014 Director $0 $0 BETHANY BIRCHES CAMP INC
Chris Leech 2016 Member $0 $0 MILTON COMMUNITY YOUTH COALITION INC
Chiho Kaneko 2016 Director $0 $0 FAIREWINDS ENERGY EDUCATION CORP
Bruce Catton 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL
Madeline Rockwell 2016 Secretary $0 $0 DISABLED SPORTS USA
Thomas Marsh 2015 Vice President $0 $0 WINDSOR IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION
Arnie Gundersen 2016 Director $0 $0 FAIREWINDS ENERGY EDUCATION CORP
Amy Mcmullen 2015 Director $0 $0 WINDSOR IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION
Tara Durkee 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 THETFORD AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM 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.