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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Taylor Yeates 2015 President $0 $0 RICHMOND RESCUE INCORPORATED
Gretchen Elias 2015 Executive Director $0 $0 GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT
Stephanie Giese 2016 Trustee $0 $0 RIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC
John Puleio 2016 Trustee $0 $0 KELLOGG HUBBARD LIBRARY
James Dicosimo 2016 Treasurer/Cf $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Sharon Blair 2016 Director At $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Richard Courcelle 2016 Pres/Ceo $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Jay Slenker 2016 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Misty Koloski 2016 Director At $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Stephen Norten 2016 Trustee $0 $0 KELLOGG HUBBARD LIBRARY
George Bryant 2016 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Jim Candon 2016 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY COURT DIVERSION AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER INC
Laird Covey 2016 Vice Chairma $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Chris Keyser 2016 Chairman $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Julie Brochu 2016 Director At $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Robert Bliss 2016 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Ron Holm 2016 Secretary $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
David Daniels 2016 Director At $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Rachel Muse 2016 Secretary $0 $0 KELLOGG HUBBARD LIBRARY
Betsy Glynn 2016 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Dan Hinton 2016 Director At $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Jon Averill 2015 Director $0 $0 CSB YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Lorraine Pilon Until Nov 16 2016 Trustee $0 $0 KELLOGG HUBBARD LIBRARY
Roy Amey 2016 Farm Bureau $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Katherine H Dickenson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE 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.