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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Rhonda Calhoun 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Pall Spera 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE MANSFIELD TROUT CLUB
David Twombly 2015 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Greg Worden 2015 President $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Derrick Senior 2014 Member $0 $0 VERMONT COMMONS SCHOOL
Allison Hooper 2016 Trustee $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Michael Mandracchia 2015 Vice President $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
James G Wheeler Jr 2016 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Benjamin Beisswenger 2014 Trustee $0 $0 SELAMTA FAMILY PROJECT INC
David Vinick 2014 Secretary $0 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE
George Weir 2015 Secretary $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Mike Barsotti 2017 Secretary $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN WATER ENVIRONMENT ASSOCIATION
Patricia Fisher 2014 Board Member $0 $0 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES
Catherine Orr 2015 Vice President $0 $0 CAPITAL CITY CONCERTS INC
Richard C Carroll 2014 President $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Robert Sheftman 2016 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY SERVICES INC
Margaret Seely 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Carole Wood 2015 Trustee [From 02/2016] $0 $0 WORLD LEARNING INC
Beth Baldwin 2015 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Kenneth Valentine 2016 Secretary $0 $0 LAKE MANSFIELD TROUT CLUB
Marty Cohn 2015 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Tim Burke 2016 2Nd Vice Pre $0 $0 LAKE MANSFIELD TROUT CLUB
Deborah Brighton 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Ms Alison Barkley 2016 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Catherine Raishart 2015 Member $0 $0 FOXCROFT FARM HARVEST 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.