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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jim Ludwig 2016 President $0 $0 ORANGE COUNTY DIVERSION PROGRAM
Dorothy Belair 2015 Vice President $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILLARY
Lori Nelson 2015 Vice President $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILLARY
Mary Ann Reich 2015 Director $0 $0 REGIONAL AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Gary Edmonds 2015 Director $0 $0 BELVIDERE COMMUNITY CLUB INC
Ms Nancy Usher Goodrich 2016 Trustee - Secretary $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Susan Burleson 2015 Director $0 $0 BELVIDERE COMMUNITY CLUB INC
Bert Burleson 2015 Director $0 $0 BELVIDERE COMMUNITY CLUB INC
Mr James Impey 2016 Trustee - Treasurer $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
William Mclean 2015 Director $0 $0 BELVIDERE COMMUNITY CLUB INC
Myrna Tallman 2015 Director $0 $0 BELVIDERE COMMUNITY CLUB INC
Mr Robert M Fairbanks Esq 2016 Trustee - Vice President $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
James Branagan 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BREWERS ASSOCIATION INC
Sue Wisehart Rn 2016 Chairperson $0 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY COURT DIVERSION PROGRAM INC
Jose Maclean 2015 Secretary $0 $0 BELVIDERE COMMUNITY CLUB INC
John Draper 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Rebecca Y Robinson 2016 Director $0 $0 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
David Porteous 2015 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Kelly Deforge 2015 President $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Linda Oskam 2016 Director $0 $0 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Yasi Zeichner 2015 Director $0 $0 YOUNG TRADITION VERMONT INC
Migmar Tsering 2015 Director $0 $0 YOUNG TRADITION VERMONT INC
Oliver K Olsen 2016 Director $0 $0 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Nijaza Semic 2015 Director $0 $0 YOUNG TRADITION VERMONT INC
Maddy Hejna 2015 Director $0 $0 YOUNG TRADITION 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.