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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jesse Sawyer 2014 2Nd Vice $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION CLUB
Joel Bouvier 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRISTOL RECREATION CLUB
Chris Bearor 2016 Director $0 $0 EVERGREEN PRE-SCHOOL INC
Sherry Boudreau 2017 President $0 $0 PARKS FOR PAWS LTD
Mary Larose 2016 Trustee $0 $0 FRANKLIN HOMESTEAD INC
Matthew Vogel 2016 Director $0 $0 EVERGREEN PRE-SCHOOL INC
Todd Barker 2015 Chair $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY GROUP INC
Patricia Swartz 2014 Secretary $0 $0 PASSUMPSIC VALLEY LAND TRUST
Nancy Cristelli 2014 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF RUTLAND COUNTY VERMONT INC
Cheri Petrin 2016 Director $0 $0 EVERGREEN PRE-SCHOOL INC
Kevin Cavanaugh 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY GROUP INC
Gary Dir 2015 Membership Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Kenneth Locklin 2015 Director / Consultant $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY GROUP INC
Carolyn Lane 2016 President $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD ON THE MOVE INC
Brian Keane 2015 Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY GROUP INC
Julia Shin 2015 Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY GROUP INC
Beth Anderson 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 BTVIGNITE INC
Ronald Larose 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRISTOL RECREATION CLUB
Mary Perry 2016 Vice-President $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD ON THE MOVE INC
David Rosin 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRISTOL RECREATION CLUB
James O'Brien 2016 Director $0 $0 ROCKINGHAM CHARITIES LIMITED
Sandra Macgillivray 2016 Secretary $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD ON THE MOVE INC
Penrose Jackson 2015 Board $0 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK INC
Ann Help 2014 Director $0 $0 WAR LEGACIES PROJECT INC
Sara B Chard 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ALANA COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION

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.