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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Russ Hotchkiss 2016 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY SERVICES INC
Patricia Sears 2016 Director $0 $0 GILMAN HOUSING CORPORATION
Steve Martin 2015 Director $0 $0 GRANITE CITY HOUSING INC
Rebecca Holcombe 2015 Council Memb $0 $0 BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE COUNCIL INC
Ray Michaud 2015 Recorder Sec $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Mark Kolter 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Scott Campbell 2016 Director $0 $0 GILMAN HOUSING CORPORATION
Ted Barrett 2015 Deputy Grand $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Norman Marshall 2016 Exalted Ruler $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Reverend Jeffrey Potter 2016 Director $0 $0 GILMAN HOUSING CORPORATION
Rachel Hurwitz 2015 2015 Chapter President $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Elise Mench 2015 2015 Vp Member Development $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Bryan Shanley 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Trisha Ingalls 2016 Chief Executive Officer $0 $0 GILMAN HOUSING CORPORATION
Elizabeth Coleman 2015 2015 Vp Finance $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Thaddeus Guldbrandsen 2016 Trustee $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Geoff Grassette 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Emily Sherman 2015 2015 Vp Membership $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Tony Klein Rep 2016 Director $0 $0 PEOPLES HEALTH AND WELLNESS CLINIC
Abby Wilson 2015 2015 Vp Administration $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Thomas Brock 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE MANSFIELD TROUT CLUB
Claire Schwaegler 2015 2015 Vp Philanthropy $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Claire Wyatt 2015 2015 Vp Communications $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Diane Tensen 2016 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY SERVICES INC
Mike Hathaway 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE MANSFIELD TROUT CLUB

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.