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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jason Galipeau 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN INTERNATIONAL INC
Leslie Sanborn 2015 Director $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Judge Walter M Morris 2015 Director $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Shawn Bartlett 2016 President $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN INTERNATIONAL INC
Michael Nobels 2016 Director $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Arthur Magnaghi Jr 2015 Director $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Fred Lord Ph D 2015 Director $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Frank Stanley 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN INTERNATIONAL INC
Rahul Kushwaha 2015 Director $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Steve Kostka 2015 Director $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Scott Richardson 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN INTERNATIONAL INC
Mark Nicholson 2016 Chair $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Tracy Martin 2016 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM ARTS COUNCIL INC
Warner Shedd 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 FEDERATION OF STATE CONSERVATION VOTER LEAGUES INC
Renea Louie 2016 Director $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CAPTIVE INSURANCE EDUCATION INC
Michael Burak 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Paul Gates 2016 Trustee $0 $0 FRANKLIN HOMESTEAD INC
T J Jackman 2015 Director $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Harry Hinrichsen 2015 Director $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Bob Qua 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN INTERNATIONAL INC
Jason Gibbs 2015 Director $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Peter Fagan 2015 Director $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Bill Moore 2016 Ex-Officio $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Bernard F Byrne Ph D 2015 Advancement $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Clint Buxton 2015 Director $0 $0 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

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.