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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Dorthea Kelly 2014 Trustee- President $0 $0 DORSET VILLAGE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC
Ann Thompson 2014 Trustee $0 $0 DORSET VILLAGE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC
Geoffrey Hesslink 2016 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Betsy Olson 2014 Trustee $0 $0 DORSET VILLAGE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC
Ariana Lynch 2014 Trustee $0 $0 DORSET VILLAGE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC
Dean Mooney 2016 Director $0 $0 BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INC
Eric Becker 2016 Trustee $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Richard Freeman 2014 Trustee $0 $0 DORSET VILLAGE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC
Julie Birns 2015 Board Member $0 $0 INNER FIRE
Elizabeth Rogers 2015 Vice President $0 $0 INNER FIRE
Laurie Rabut 2015 Secretary $0 $0 INNER FIRE
Jessica Schiller 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN PERFORMING ARTS INC
Kate Ross 2016 Director $0 $0 BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INC
Margo Baldwin 2016 Trustee $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Marshall Hammond 2015 Vice President $0 $0 INNER FIRE
Karen Cormier 2016 Secretary $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN PERFORMING ARTS INC
Thomas Kavet 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 INNER FIRE
Sue Dillon 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
Richard Pritsky 2016 Pres/Treasurer $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN PERFORMING ARTS INC
David King 2016 Director $0 $0 BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INC
Krissa Jamieson 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
Lisa Jenison 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
John Bauer 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN PERFORMING ARTS INC
Joan Cnossen 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
Kim Kie 2014 Board Chair $0 $0 GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN

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.