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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Gary Howe 2016 Director $0 $0 GREATER RANDOLPH SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER INC
Ned Kirsch 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION
Alice Worth 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION
Garry Crothers 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 GREATER RANDOLPH SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER INC
Matt Atkins 2016 First Asst. Chief $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Jeremy Kent 2016 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Jeanne Collins 2015 President Elect $0 $0 VERMONT SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION
Elaine Pinckney 2015 Past President $0 $0 VERMONT SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION
Rebecca Post 2015 Director $0 $0 EPSILON CHI HOUSE CORP
Peg Van Norden 2015 Director $0 $0 EPSILON CHI HOUSE CORP
Jan Thouron 2016 Board Member $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC
Dan Ober 2016 Chief $0 $0 LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Filomena Kersey 2015 Director $0 $0 EPSILON CHI HOUSE CORP
Judy Dennis 2015 Secretary $0 $0 EPSILON CHI HOUSE CORP
Georgia Valentine 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC
Bettina Mccrady 2015 President $0 $0 EPSILON CHI HOUSE CORP
Larry Meier 2015 Trustee $0 $0 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LAB INC
Richard Paradis 2016 Vice President $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC
Terry Mcnabb 2016 President $0 $0 MT MANSFIELD WINTER ACADEMY INC
Jim Donohue 2016 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Richard Detweilder 2016 Trustee $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Dennis Harwick 2016 Director $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CAPTIVE INSURANCE EDUCATION INC
Leslie Nulty 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Eric Booth 2015 Trustee $0 $0 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LAB INC
Leslie Ward 2015 Trustee $0 $0 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LAB 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.