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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Peter A Margolis Md Phd 2016 Vice President $0 $0 IMPROVECARENOW INC
Bonnie Johnson-Aten As Of Dec 22 2016 Trustee $0 $0 KELLOGG HUBBARD LIBRARY
Guy Watson 2015 Vice President $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Rick Watson 2015 President $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Tom Archer 2016 Trustee $0 $0 RIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC
Sharon Yergeau 2015 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Peter Pettit 2015 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Mike Dente 2016 Trustee $0 $0 RIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC
Penny Marwede 2016 Trustee $0 $0 KELLOGG HUBBARD LIBRARY
Randall Perkins 2016 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
John Cassarino 2016 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY COURT DIVERSION AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER INC
Darren Benoit 2016 Secretary $0 $0 AMERICAN COUNCIL OF ENGINEERING COMPANIES OF VERMONT INC
Anne Cunningham 2016 Member $0 $0 FAMILIES FIRST IN SOUTHERN VERMONT INC
Bryn Oakleaf 2015 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
George Macdonald 2015 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Polly Yerkes Rn 2016 Trustee $0 $0 RIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC
Kaley Laleker 2015 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Robert Isner 2015 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Tina Mitchell 2016 Trustee $0 $0 RIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC
Kate Connizzo 2016 Trustee $0 $0 KELLOGG HUBBARD LIBRARY
Greg Cooper 2015 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Henry Carse 2015 Director $0 $0 RICHMOND RESCUE INCORPORATED
Jim Newell 2016 Trustee $0 $0 RIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC
Andrew Squires 2015 Director $0 $0 RICHMOND RESCUE INCORPORATED
Jaymi Kendall 2015 Secretary $0 $0 RICHMOND RESCUE INCORPORATED

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.