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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Mary Larose 2016 Trustee $0 $0 FRANKLIN HOMESTEAD INC
Roma Gallagher 2015 Vice President $0 $0 CAMP NERINGA INC
Rosaire Fortin 2015 Service Offi $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION CLUB NEWPORT-21 INC
Dianne Lashoones 2015 Program Dire $0 $0 RHYTHM OF THE REIN INC
Randall Sargent 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC
Karen Macphee 2015 Secretary $0 $0 THETFORD AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM INC
Sara Ecker 2015 Board Member $0 $0 THETFORD AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM INC
Patricia Smith 2015 President $0 $0 THETFORD AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM INC
Thomas Pound 2016 Finance Dir $0 $0 FAIREWINDS ENERGY EDUCATION CORP
Tara Durkee 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 THETFORD AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM INC
Amy Mcmullen 2015 Director $0 $0 WINDSOR IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION
Arnie Gundersen 2016 Director $0 $0 FAIREWINDS ENERGY EDUCATION CORP
Thomas Marsh 2015 Vice President $0 $0 WINDSOR IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION
Bruce Catton 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL
Chiho Kaneko 2016 Director $0 $0 FAIREWINDS ENERGY EDUCATION CORP
Chris Leech 2016 Member $0 $0 MILTON COMMUNITY YOUTH COALITION INC
Francisco Drexel 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL
Robert Manning 2016 Chairman $0 $0 FAIREWINDS ENERGY EDUCATION CORP
Chuck Vanderstreet 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WOODSTOCK RECREATION CENTER INC
Kristine Stratton 2016 Director $0 $0 1 FOR THE PLANET INC
Laurie Noyes 2015 Board Member $0 $0 CIRCLE INC
Emily Meyer 2015 Board Member $0 $0 CIRCLE INC
Tom Emery 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WOODSTOCK RECREATION CENTER INC
Gary Marvel 2015 Board Member $0 $0 CIRCLE INC
Veda Lyon 2015 Board Member $0 $0 CIRCLE 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.