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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Bethe Ogle 2014 Treasurer/Director $50 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
Jeff Towne 2016 Trustee $45 $0 LOCAL 693 EDUCATION FUND
Bryce Sammel 2017 Member $45 $0 UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF TUNBRIDGE
Jill Maynard 2013 Board Member $25 $0 ARLINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Marcel Lehouilles 2016 Director $3 $6 BELVIDERE COMMUNITY CLUB INC
Anna Pirie 2016 Director $1 $0 VERMONT NETWORK AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE
Marianne Balczuk 2013 Secretary $1 $0 PLANET BLUEWATER CORPORATION
Will Rapp 2013 Treasurer $1 $0 PLANET BLUEWATER CORPORATION
Nancy Lewis Heliotes 2013 President $1 $0 PLANET BLUEWATER CORPORATION
Vanessa Kittell 2015 President $0 $0 VERMONT TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
Doug Griswold 2016 Director $0 $0 STARBASE VERMONT INCORPORATED
James Levins 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
Judith Deschaine 2015 President $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILLARY
Mary Ann Ledwith 2016 President $0 $0 STARBASE VERMONT INCORPORATED
Karen Geraghty 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY
Julie Berger Pierson 2015 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Radetta Nemscosky 2015 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Carol Miller 2015 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Carol Ellison 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY
William Ballantyne 2016 Secretary $0 $0 WINDSOR IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION
Cathie Merrihew 2015 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Gil Livingston 2015 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Sharon Asay 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Manya Dickinson 2015 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Peter Cameron 2015 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE 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.