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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Stephen Moff 2017 Director $1,200 $0 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Teela Dufresne 2017 Chair/Director $1,200 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
John Mcgann 2017 President $1,200 $0 ITALIAN AID SOCIETY INC
Jesus Rivera 2017 Treasurer $1,200 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Teela Dufresne 2013 Director $1,200 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
Ernest Cioffi 2017 Director $1,200 $0 ITALIAN AID SOCIETY INC
Stacey A Chickering 2017 Officer $1,200 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Lynn Wheatley 2016 Treasurer/Director $1,200 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
Penny Bishop 2013 Secretary $1,200 $0 MIDDLE GRADES COLLABORATIVE
Christian Borgesen 2017 President $1,200 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Kathy Whitney 2013 President $1,200 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Laura Devincentis 2013 Secretary $1,200 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Janaki Natarajan Tschannerl 2016 Founder/ Dir $1,200 $0 EDUCATIONAL PRAXIS INC
Pernille Stage 2017 Secretary $1,200 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Joanne Latrell 2014 Director $1,200 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
Karen Abrahamovich 2014 Director $1,200 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
Teela Dufresne 2014 Director $1,200 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
Anne Harmon 2014 Director $1,200 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
Norma Malone 2017 Director $1,200 $0 SPAULDING HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP TR
Susan Poczobut 2017 Vice Chair $1,200 $0 SPAULDING HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP TR
Lynn Guy 2017 Treasurer $1,200 $0 SPAULDING HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP TR
Paul Malone 2017 Sectretary $1,200 $0 SPAULDING HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP TR
David Lacroix 2017 Chair $1,200 $0 SPAULDING HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP TR
Joyce Rushlow 2013 Treasurer $1,200 $0 ARROWHEAD SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER INC
Pernille Stage 2015 Secretary $1,200 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS

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.