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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lauren Macarthur 2016 Co-President $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Carol Foster 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 MOONBOX PRODUCTIONS INC
Ted Alder 2016 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Gloria Wing 2016 Sec/Treasure $0 $0 PLEASANT VIEW CEMETERY ASSOC
Wendy Koenig 2016 Secretary $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Lee Sturtevant 2016 V President $0 $0 PLEASANT VIEW CEMETERY ASSOC
Peter R Brown 2016 Secretary $0 $0 MOONBOX PRODUCTIONS INC
James Gallagher 2015 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
Robert Surridge 2015 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
Tonya Oya Orme 2015 Trustee $0 $0 FARM & WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC
David Scherr 2015 Trustee $0 $0 FARM & WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC
Margaret Henry 2015 Trustee $0 $0 FARM & WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC
Karen Mckinney 2016 Former Director $0 $0 VERMONT STAGE COMPANY INC
Sharman Baltshuler 2016 President $0 $0 MOONBOX PRODUCTIONS INC
Zora Jones Rizzi 2015 Trustee $0 $0 FARM & WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC
Kristi Webb 2015 Trustee $0 $0 FARM & WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC
Larry Rudiger 2016 Former Director $0 $0 VERMONT STAGE COMPANY INC
Janet Green 2015 Trustee $0 $0 FARM & WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC
Rebecca Steinitz 2015 Trustee $0 $0 FARM & WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC
Steve Silverman 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT STAGE COMPANY INC
Julie Jatlow 2016 Officer $0 $0 T R I P DANCE COMPANY
Kelly Devine 2016 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Larry Stewart 2015 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
Amy Hunter 2015 Trustee $0 $0 FARM & WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC
Ashley Mikell 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT STAGE COMPANY 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.