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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Reuben Adams 2014 Executive Co $2,085 $0 NATIONAL RURAL LETTER CARRIERS ASSOCIATION
Jean Hamilton 2017 Director $2,080 $0 WASHINGTON ELECTRIC CO-OPERATIVE INC
Jodi Wheeler 2014 President $2,080 $0 HELPING OTHER PEOPLE EVERYDAY INC
Rachael Huff 2016 Chairman $2,080 $0 FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER ASSN INC
Robert Sanders 2014 Former Director/Consultant $2,063 $5,912 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Allison Comet 2016 Board Member $2,021 $0 VERMONT WILDERNESS SCHOOL INC
Marty Irion 2015 Executive Di $2,019 $0 ARLINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Barbara Smith 2013 Secretary/Treas $2,014 $0 SEVEN STARS ARTS CENTER INC
Daniel Wyckoff 2017 Director $2,013 $0 CAMBRIDGE FIRE COMPANY INC
Catherine Mitchell 2017 Chair $2,000 $0 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Frances Rowell 2017 Music Director $2,000 $0 CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS INC
Merton Snow 2013 Treasurer $2,000 $0 VERMONT STATE GRANGE INC
Sue Coakley 2017 Treasurer $2,000 $0 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Richard Cowart 2017 Vice President $2,000 $0 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Michael Dworkin 2017 Director $2,000 $0 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
John Gilroy 2017 Director $2,000 $0 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Charles Stone 2017 President $2,000 $0 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Jane Sherwin 2013 Treasurer $2,000 $0 MEETING HOUSE HILL CEMETERY CO INC C/O J A SCOTT
Tony Rock 2016 Treasurer $2,000 $0 VERMONT MAPLE FESTIVAL INC
Roger Hamilton 2015 Vice Chair/Interim Treas (To Jun '15) $2,000 $0 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Danielle Manahan 2014 Treasurer $2,000 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Sam Davis 2015 Director $2,000 $0 RUN VERMONT INC
Merton Snow 2015 Treasurer $2,000 $0 VERMONT STATE GRANGE INC
Jane Sherwin 2015 Treasurer $2,000 $0 MEETING HOUSE HILL CEMETERY CO INC C/O J A SCOTT
Sam Davis 2017 Director $2,000 $0 RUN VERMONT 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.