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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jon Anderson 2016 Director $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Marnie Davis 2015 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Barbara Cory 2015 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Ericka Canales 2015 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Bailee Burns 2015 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Rich Harvie 2016 Chairman $0 $0 VERMONT PHARMICISTS ASSOCIATION
April Tuck 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 CRESCENDO CLUB LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC
James A Petosa 2016 Vice President $0 $0 POTOMAC THEATRE PROJECT INC
Thomas Slayton 2016 Director $0 $0 FEDERATION OF STATE CONSERVATION VOTER LEAGUES INC
Eric Hanson 2015 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Phil Schuman 2015 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Rupesh Asher 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT PHARMICISTS ASSOCIATION
Jeanne Chenoweth 2015 Chair $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Tom White 2015 Trustee $0 $0 ALDRICH PUBLIC LIBRARY
Sandra Rosa 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT PHARMICISTS ASSOCIATION
Gregory Woodworth 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Mike Smith 2015 Trustee $0 $0 ALDRICH PUBLIC LIBRARY
Caroline S Earle 2015 Vice President $0 $0 ALDRICH PUBLIC LIBRARY
Marty Irons 2016 Board Consultant $0 $0 VERMONT PHARMICISTS ASSOCIATION
Denise Clark 2016 2Nd Vice Pres $0 $0 VERMONT PHARMICISTS ASSOCIATION
Candice White 2016 Director $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Cheryl Faraone 2016 Sec/Treas $0 $0 POTOMAC THEATRE PROJECT INC
Mark Alexander 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 ALDRICH PUBLIC LIBRARY
Luann Preddy 2015 Trustee $0 $0 ALDRICH PUBLIC LIBRARY
Jocelyn Depaolis 2016 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT PHARMICISTS ASSOCIATION

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.