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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Carolyn Dwyer 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Paul Sayler 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BREWERS ASSOCIATION INC
Nowa Crosby 2015 Director $0 $0 YOUNG TRADITION VERMONT INC
Joe Cleary 2015 Director $0 $0 YOUNG TRADITION VERMONT INC
Barbara Morrow 2016 Director $0 $0 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Allison James 2015 Director $0 $0 YOUNG TRADITION VERMONT INC
Bill Ellis 2015 Director $0 $0 YOUNG TRADITION VERMONT INC
Vicky Linville 2016 Director $0 $0 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Tim Volk 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Nancy Bove 2015 Director $0 $0 YOUNG TRADITION VERMONT INC
Darren Schibler 2015 Secretary Director $0 $0 YOUNG TRADITION VERMONT INC
Julia Wayne 2015 Director $0 $0 YOUNG TRADITION VERMONT INC
Rachel Schattman 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 YOUNG TRADITION VERMONT INC
Abigail L Hurlburt 2016 Director $0 $0 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Roslyn Haldane 2016 President $0 $0 TENDER LOVING RESPITE HOUSE
Avery Schwenk 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BREWERS ASSOCIATION INC
Elaine Collins 2015 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC
Robert P Brennan Jr 2015 Director $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Brian Perkins 2015 Director $0 $0 YOUNG TRADITION VERMONT INC
Bill Drislane 2015 Vice President $0 $0 YOUNG TRADITION VERMONT INC
Kathleen Balutansky 2017 Trustee $0 $0 ISLE LAMOTTE REEF PRESERVATION TR INC
Tim Lahey Md Mmsc 2015 Board $0 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK INC
Wayne Granquist 2016 Chair Emeritus $0 $0 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Sara Haskins 2016 Director $0 $0 MORRISVILLE SOCCER CLUB INC
Molly Kittridge Rn 2015 Board $0 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK 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.