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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Joyce Rushlow 2013 Treasurer $1,200 $0 ARROWHEAD SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER INC
Pernille Stage 2017 Secretary $1,200 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
John Bicknell 2014 Member $1,200 $0 UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF TUNBRIDGE
Patricia Boyd 2015 Vice Preside $1,200 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Christian Borgesen 2015 President $1,200 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Laura Devincentis 2015 Grievance Of $1,200 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Vikki Butynski 2015 Treasurer $1,200 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Mark Herman-May 2015 Lasion $1,200 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Pernille Stage 2015 Secretary $1,200 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Joyce Rushlow 2014 Director $1,200 $0 ARROWHEAD SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER INC
John S Burket 2014 Director $1,200 $0 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
John Bicknell 2017 Member $1,200 $0 UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF TUNBRIDGE
Richard Cleveland 2013 Chairman/Director $1,200 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
David French 2016 Vice Chairman $1,200 $0 UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
Joyce Rushlow 2016 Director $1,200 $0 ARROWHEAD SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER INC
Vikki Butynski 2017 Treasurer $1,200 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Mike Davis 2017 Director $1,200 $0 SPAULDING HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP TR
John Mcgann 2016 President $1,200 $0 ITALIAN AID SOCIETY INC
Colleen O'Neill 2015 Director $1,200 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
John Bicknell 2015 Member $1,200 $0 UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF TUNBRIDGE
Tara Gauding 2016 Director $1,200 $0 SOUTH BURLINGTON EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION
Roberta Jarvis 2016 Director $1,200 $0 SOUTH BURLINGTON EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION
Mike Davis 2016 Director $1,200 $0 SPAULDING HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP TR
Anne Harmon 2013 Director $1,200 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
Donna Johnson 2016 Secretary/Director $1,200 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED

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.