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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Ronald Larose 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRISTOL RECREATION CLUB
James O'Brien 2016 Director $0 $0 ROCKINGHAM CHARITIES LIMITED
Todd Barker 2015 Chair $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY GROUP INC
Matthew Vogel 2016 Director $0 $0 EVERGREEN PRE-SCHOOL INC
Sherry Boudreau 2017 President $0 $0 PARKS FOR PAWS LTD
Chris Bearor 2016 Director $0 $0 EVERGREEN PRE-SCHOOL INC
Joel Bouvier 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRISTOL RECREATION CLUB
Susan Torncello 2016 Director $0 $0 EVERGREEN PRE-SCHOOL INC
Wayne R Ryan 2016 President,Treas,Dir $0 $0 ROCKINGHAM CHARITIES LIMITED
Jamie Smith 2016 Directdor $0 $0 EVERGREEN PRE-SCHOOL INC
Elizabeth Farr 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 BRISTOL RECREATION CLUB
Nolan Atkins 2016 Director $0 $0 VSC FOUNDATION INC
Sally Wood 2015 Director $0 $0 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF THE RUTLAND REGION INC
Kristin Saroyan 2015 President $0 $0 NORWICH NURSERY SCHOOL INC
Sarah Sabatino 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 NORWICH NURSERY SCHOOL INC
Katrina Matthews 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 EVERGREEN PRE-SCHOOL INC
Julie Miller 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERY MERRY THEATRE
Elizabeth Morgan 2015 Director $0 $0 VERY MERRY THEATRE
Cathy Fuller 2016 Secretary $0 $0 EVERGREEN PRE-SCHOOL INC
Jay Kenlan 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Laura Massell 2015 Secretary $0 $0 VERY MERRY THEATRE
Christopher Larson 2015 Past President $0 $0 VERMONT TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
Mr Edward R Zuccaro Esq 2016 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Richard C Carroll 2015 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Sadie Fischesser 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO SUNRISE FOUNDATION 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.