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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Norman Marshall 2016 Exalted Ruler $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Peter Nolan 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE MANSFIELD TROUT CLUB
Dr Dale Neil 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE MANSFIELD TROUT CLUB
Patsy French 2016 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY SERVICES INC
Wilbur Mann Jr 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE MANSFIELD TROUT CLUB
Claire Wyatt 2016 2015 Vp Housing $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Peter Kunin 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE MANSFIELD TROUT CLUB
Jason Richardson 2016 Chief Operating Officer $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Allison Hooper 2016 Trustee $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Jon Brooks 2015 Member $0 $0 VERMONTS CAMP TAKUMTA
Caitlin De Nagy 2016 2015 Vp Administration $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Abby Shuster 2016 2015 Vp Fraternity Development $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Eric Hanley 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE MANSFIELD TROUT CLUB
Abby Shuster 2015 2015 Vp Housing $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Brooke Balfrey 2015 2015 Vp Event Planning $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Mike Hathaway 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE MANSFIELD TROUT CLUB
Claire Wyatt 2015 2015 Vp Communications $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Claire Schwaegler 2015 2015 Vp Philanthropy $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Thomas Brock 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE MANSFIELD TROUT CLUB
Abby Wilson 2015 2015 Vp Administration $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Emily Sherman 2015 2015 Vp Membership $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Geoff Grassette 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Diane Tensen 2016 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY SERVICES INC
Thaddeus Guldbrandsen 2016 Trustee $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Elizabeth Coleman 2015 2015 Vp Finance $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY

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.