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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lori Rivers 2016 Director $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Tawnya Kristen 2016 Executive Di $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY
Kate Baldwin 2015 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Zachary Manchester 2015 Secretary $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Robert Fairbanks 2016 Secretary $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Joseph Bernor 2015 Director $0 $0 REGIONAL AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Shirley Brown 2015 Vice President $0 $0 BELVIDERE COMMUNITY CLUB INC
Rick Yeiser 2016 Director $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Annette Young 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY
Steve Miller 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT BREWERS ASSOCIATION INC
Nancy Reed 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ORANGE COUNTY DIVERSION PROGRAM
Ted Sisley 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC
Marshal Case 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC
Joan Vancour 2016 Director $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC
John North 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC
Michael Clough 2015 Asst. Museum Director $0 $29,565 VERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC
Jennifer Kramer 2016 Director $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Margaret Pinello-White 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY
Edward C Metcalfe Jr 2015 President/Ex. Director $0 $0 VERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC
Diane Potvin 2015 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN HOUSING CORPORATION
Michael Yaeger 2016 Co-President $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Edgar Sabourin 2015 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN HOUSING CORPORATION
Edward Willenbaker 2015 Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0 CHITTENDEN HOUSING CORPORATION
Susan Mesner 2016 Director $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Dawne Smith 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY

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.