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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Penny Jones 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 MORRISVILLE SOCCER CLUB INC
Skye Chalmers 2016 Director $0 $0 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Jp Williams 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BREWERS ASSOCIATION INC
Karen Nystrom Meyer 2015 Director $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Bonnie Koenig 2015 Director $0 $0 NINEVAH FOUNDATION
Fran Voigt 2014 Secretary $0 $0 NECI SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
Juliette Britton 2016 Director $0 $0 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Ellen Voigt 2014 President & Treasurer $0 $0 NECI SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
Hannah Spector Phd 2015 Director $0 $0 FAIREWINDS ENERGY EDUCATION CORP
Ludy Biddle 2016 Director $0 $0 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
William Cleary 2016 Vice Presidn $0 $0 MORRISVILLE SOCCER CLUB INC
Kristina Pisanelli End 5216 2015 Director/Ex Officio $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Sharman Altshuler 2016 Director $0 $0 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Ginny Sharp 2015 Secretary $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
Rocco Maggiotto 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Robyn Sonis 2015 President $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
Joseph A Bertolino 2015 President $0 $0 VERMONT HIGHER EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL INC
Allen Van Anda 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BREWERS ASSOCIATION INC
Kris Stone 2015 Director $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
Chris Perry 2016 Secretary $0 $0 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Tom Stames 2016 President $0 $0 MORRISVILLE SOCCER CLUB INC
William Neilson 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
Paul Mosher 2015 Potentate $0 $0 SHRINERS INTERNATIONAL
Mildred A Reardon 2015 Director $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Scott S Segal 2015 Director $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION

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.