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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Sarah Perrin 2016 Secretary $3,083 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Maureen Bothfeld 2017 Recording Secretary $3,079 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Marcel Cote 2017 Treasurer/Executive Commit $3,079 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
David A Otterman 2017 Trustee $3,068 $0 ELIZABETH M CAMPBELL LIBRARY TRUST FUND
Raymond St John 2014 Adjutant $3,067 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Christine Viau 2017 Cook $3,066 $0 OUR COMMUNITY CARES CAMP
Franklin Stanley 2013 Vice Preside $3,048 $0 NATIONAL RURAL LETTER CARRIERS ASSOCIATION
John S Burket 2015 Director $3,037 $0 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Timothy Cota 2016 Vice Pres. $3,036 $0 ORLEANS EMERGENCY UNIT INC
Sara Mckirryer 2017 President $3,016 $0 VERGENNES AREA RESCUE SQUAD
Daisy R Wojewoda 2016 Regional Dir. Of Military & Veterans $3,006 $2,330 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Charles Popovitch 2017 Secretary $3,005 $0 ITALIAN AID SOCIETY INC
Roger Burr 2016 Depty Gr Sec $3,000 $0 FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF VERMONT
Rosemarie Pelchuck 2013 Former Sec. $3,000 $0 EAST MONTPELIER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
James Carrien 2013 Treasurer $3,000 $0 EAST MONTPELIER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Catherine Joanne Yavarone 2013 President $3,000 $0 ST JOSEPHS DWELLING PLACE
Nancy Perkins 2014 Secretary $3,000 $0 VERMONT STATE GRANGE INC
Joanne Rock 2015 Secretary $3,000 $0 VERMONT MAPLE FESTIVAL INC
Joanne Rock 2016 Secretary $3,000 $0 VERMONT MAPLE FESTIVAL INC
Nina Meyerhof 2014 President $3,000 $0 CHILDREN OF THE EARTH INC
Nancy Perkins 2016 Secretary $3,000 $0 VERMONT STATE GRANGE INC
Joanna Woos 2015 Executive Director - Green $3,000 $0 ROCHESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY LTD
Joanne Rock 2014 Secretary $3,000 $0 VERMONT MAPLE FESTIVAL INC
Nancy Perkins 2013 Secretary $3,000 $0 VERMONT STATE GRANGE INC
Cheyenne Wood 2014 Trustee $3,000 $0 WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS EDUCATIONAL 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.