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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Patrice Strifert 2015 Vice Preside $1,000 $0 EDUCATIONAL PRAXIS INC
Patricia Vana 2015 Secretary/Treas $1,000 $0 NEWPORT COUNTRY CLUB INC
Carole Blake 2014 Director Emeritus $1,000 $0 UPPER VALLEY COMMUNITY BAND
Janice Rousselle 2017 Exec Comm/Trust Ofc $1,000 $0 VERMONT STATE GRANGE INC
Grant Barrett 2017 Vice President $1,000 $0 AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY
Kathryn Coleman 2017 Treasurer $1,000 $0 ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF VT
Kathryn Coleman 2016 Treasurer $1,000 $0 ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF VT
Robert Schlachter 2016 Treasurer $1,000 $0 VERMONT STATE FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION
Kevin Goodhue 2016 Secretary $1,000 $0 VERMONT STATE FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION
Paul Malone 2016 Vice - Chair $1,000 $0 SPAULDING HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP TR
David Lacroix 2016 Chair $1,000 $0 SPAULDING HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP TR
Lynn Guy 2016 Treasurer $1,000 $0 SPAULDING HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP TR
Susan Poczobut 2016 Secretary $1,000 $0 SPAULDING HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP TR
Norma Malone 2016 Director $1,000 $0 SPAULDING HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP TR
William P Bedard 2016 President $1,000 $0 MEETING HOUSE HILL CEMETERY CO INC C/O J A SCOTT
Charles Goodwin 2015 Trustee $1,000 $0 WESTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC
Tara Gauding 2015 Director $1,000 $0 SOUTH BURLINGTON EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION
Roberta Jarvis 2015 Director $1,000 $0 SOUTH BURLINGTON EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION
Chris Vance 2015 Vice-President $1,000 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
Kathie Cheney 2016 Vendor Chair $1,000 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
Kenneth Hammer 2015 Director $1,000 $0 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Franklin Tugwell 2015 Director (From Jun '15) $1,000 $0 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Mary Ann Vuillemin 2017 Shop Manager $997 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT HOSPITAL AUXILIARY INC
Josh Allen 2015 Board Member $997 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Michelle Lemieux 2013 Secretary $995 $0 POWNAL RESCUE SQUAD 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.