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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Julie Sweethill 2016 Director $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Gary Lavorgna 2014 Trustee $0 $0 NEW BROOK VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSOCIATION INC
Robert Litchfield 2014 Trustee $0 $0 NEW BROOK VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSOCIATION INC
Nelli Sargsyan 2016 Secretary $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Erika Weir 2016 Co-Chair $0 $0 CHILDRENS DAY CARE CENTER INC
Geoff Glaspie 2016 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Castle Freeman 2014 Secretary $0 $0 NEW BROOK VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSOCIATION INC
Jenna Lapachinski 2017 Director $0 $0 PRESERVATION BURLINGTON INC
Augusta Bartlett 2016 Director $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Jay Wilson 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 NEW BROOK VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSOCIATION INC
Winn Clark 2014 Vice-President $0 $0 NEW BROOK VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSOCIATION INC
Jesse Einermann 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Charles Kamp 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 GREAT FALLS REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Mae Star Salinsky 2016 Director $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Nathan Bedford 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
Robin Macarthur 2016 Director $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
E Russell Peach Iv 2016 Asst. Treasu $0 $0 MOONBOX PRODUCTIONS INC
Lisa Ventriss 2016 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Peter Chehayl 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Michael Douglas 2016 Secretary $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CAPTIVE INSURANCE EDUCATION INC
Charles Hosford 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
Alvan Carr 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
Joie Marshall 2016 President $0 $0 PLEASANT VIEW CEMETERY ASSOC
Megan Martell 2015 Vice-President $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
Cynthia Carr 2015 President $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE 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.