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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Rick Chapin 2015 President/Treasurer $0 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Don Moyer 2015 E-Board Member $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Alicia Greene 2016 Director $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CAPTIVE INSURANCE EDUCATION INC
Laura Wittke 2015 Director $0 $0 BABA TREE INTERNATIONAL
Rosalie Harris 2016 Trustee Emeritus $0 $650 NORTHEAST KINGDOM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Jennifer Chiodo 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Jiva Manske 2015 Director $0 $0 BABA TREE INTERNATIONAL
Sean Watson 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 BABA TREE INTERNATIONAL
Peter Schaal 2016 Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP
Melanie Whitham 2015 Secretary $0 $0 BABA TREE INTERNATIONAL
Darcie Mccann 2016 Executive Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Jeff Schulman 2016 Director $0 $0 BURLINGTON BUSINESS ASSOCIATION INC
Richard Boudreau 2016 Trustee $0 $0 FRANKLIN HOMESTEAD INC
Jean Albee 2015 Vice President $0 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Whitney Calkins 2015 Board Member $0 $0 COMMON ROOTS INC
Deborah Schapiro 2015 Board Member $0 $0 COMMON ROOTS INC
Teresa Donovan 2015 Secretary $0 $0 COMMON ROOTS INC
Katie Tomai 2015 Officer $0 $0 METTA EARTH INSTITUTE INC
Shari Siegel 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC
Kimberly White 2016 President $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Jamie Silverstein 2015 Officer $0 $0 METTA EARTH INSTITUTE INC
Surya-Chandra Das 2015 Officer $0 $0 METTA EARTH INSTITUTE INC
Susan Howard 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC
Agi-Hasita Nadai 2015 Officer $0 $0 METTA EARTH INSTITUTE INC
Jim Merkel 2015 Officer $0 $0 METTA EARTH INSTITUTE 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.