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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Cynthia Boehm-Patenaude 2013 Assistant Director $1,500 $0 UPPER VALLEY COMMUNITY BAND
Lori Dow-Moore 2016 Secretary $1,500 $0 SOUTH BURLINGTON EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION
Roy Buessing 2013 Director $1,500 $0 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Richard Cowart 2013 Director $1,500 $0 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Charles Stone 2013 Treasurer $1,500 $0 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Michael Dworkin 2013 Director $1,500 $0 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Gus Seelig 2013 Chair $1,500 $0 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
John Gilroy 2013 Director $1,500 $0 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Charles Smith 2013 Director $1,500 $0 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Chris Vance 2013 Vice-President $1,500 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
Jimmy Marshall 2014 Finance $1,500 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Nancy Bradford 2017 Director $1,500 $0 CHITTENDEN COUNTY MAPLE SUGAR MAKERS ASSOCIATION INC
Nancy Bradford 2015 Director $1,500 $0 CHITTENDEN COUNTY MAPLE SUGAR MAKERS ASSOCIATION INC
Glenn Rogers 2015 Treasurer $1,500 $0 CHITTENDEN COUNTY MAPLE SUGAR MAKERS ASSOCIATION INC
Matt Podd 2014 Director $1,500 $0 MUSIC COMPOSITION ONLINE MENTORING PROGRAM INC
Cynthia Boehm-Patenaude 2014 Assistant Director $1,500 $0 UPPER VALLEY COMMUNITY BAND
Armando Villaseca 2016 President $1,500 $0 CUBAN AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY INC
Charles Smith 2016 Treasurer $1,500 $0 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Kimberly Brown 2014 Treasurer $1,500 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
Kimberly Brown 2015 Treasurer $1,500 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
Lori Dow-Moore 2015 Secretary $1,500 $0 SOUTH BURLINGTON EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION
Greg Lewis 2015 Treasurer $1,500 $0 SOUTH BURLINGTON EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION
Tony Cannizarro 2015 Director $1,500 $0 SOUTH BURLINGTON EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION
Amanda Ormond 2015 Director (From Jun '15) $1,500 $0 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Pat Trombley 2017 Secretary $1,499 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES

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.