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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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 Morgan 2014 Board Member $0 $0 WOODSTOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Mark Ruch 2015 Director $0 $0 MUSIC COMPOSITION ONLINE MENTORING PROGRAM INC
Robert Shelton Jd 2016 Trustee $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Julie Davis 2014 Vice President/Director $0 $0 VERMONT HEALTHCARE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION CENTER INC
Martha Degraaf 2014 Gen'L Adjunct $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL CIRCLE INC
Howard Clarke 2014 Board Member $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Cindy Tan 2014 Director $0 $0 SOUTH BURLINGTON YOUTH BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL INC
Christopher Beattie 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT FLIGHT ACADEMY INC
Gary Neil 2014 Director $0 $0 WINDSOR IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION
James Lawler 2015 President $0 $0 DISABLED SPORTS USA
Allan W Carpenter 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 BURLINGTON CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC
Matt Haley 2015 Director $0 $0 PARAMOUNT CENTER INC
Mark Whitworth 2014 Trustee $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM HUMAN SERVICES INC
Jason Richardson 2016 Coo $0 $31,730 UPPER VALLEY SERVICES INC
Lisa Macdougall 2014 Director $0 $0 GREATER BENNINGTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
David H Nichols 2014 Vp $0 $0 SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INCORPORATED
Mr Garth Moulton 2016 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Betsy Hurley 2015 Director $0 $0 DISABLED SPORTS USA
Judy Geer 2014 Vice-Chair $0 $0 VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC
Betsy Rathbun-Gunn 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Jeb Gorhan 2015 Director $0 $0 DISABLED SPORTS USA
Mr Jamie Murphy 2016 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Anna Niemiec 2014 Chair $0 $0 STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC
Dr Kimberly A Silloway 2016 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Jerry Goldberg 2015 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO SUNRISE FOUNDATION 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.