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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Leo Shatney 2016 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
John C Bennett 2016 Secretary $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Gary Santy 2016 Vice President $0 $0 AMERICAN COUNCIL OF ENGINEERING COMPANIES OF VERMONT INC
Lisa Rovner 2015 President $0 $0 AIA VERMONT
Jason Racine 2016 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Scott Willard 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
Rick Makin 2015 Director $0 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
George Churchill 2016 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Dana Hudson 2016 Director $0 $0 FOUR WINDS NATURE INSTITUTEINCORPORATED
Rb Klinkenberg 2015 Director $0 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
William Shearer 2015 Director $0 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
Doug Conley 2016 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Don Rendall 2015 Director $0 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
Marilyn Reap 2015 Director $0 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
Bob Montminy 2016 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
See Attached List 2016 Directors $0 $0 HOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN VERMONT
Rick Penney 2016 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Laura Giebink 2015 Director $0 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
Mary Gale 2015 Director $0 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
Mark-Shane Hinton 2016 Member At La $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Tom Getz 2015 Secretary $0 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
Lindsay Brush Getz 2015 Director $0 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
Dan Lacoss 2016 Member At La $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Amy Briggs 2016 Chair $0 $0 QUARRY HILL SCHOOL INC
Kelly Brush Davisson 2015 President, Director $0 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION

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.