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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Shane Mccormack 2016 Member $0 $0 LYRIC THEATRE COMPANY
Stuart Comstock-Gay 2016 Former Secretary $0 $2,908 J WARREN & LOIS MCCLURE FOUNDATION INC
Nate Formalarie 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 MOBIUS INC
Kathryn Burn 2015 Director $0 $0 ROOTSWORK INC
Richard Czaplinski 2015 Director $0 $0 ROOTSWORK INC
Dr Ron Veenema 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Mary Ellen Kinhan 2015 Director $0 $0 ROOTSWORK INC
Julia Puriton 2015 Director $0 $0 ROOTSWORK INC
Geri Ann Higgins 2016 Development $0 $0 LYRIC THEATRE COMPANY
Jane Cunningham 2015 Director $0 $0 ROOTSWORK INC
Rachel Goff 2015 Secretary $0 $0 ROOTSWORK INC
Deb O'Hara 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 ROOTSWORK INC
Donald Swain 2015 Co-Chairman $0 $0 ROOTSWORK INC
Elizabeth Stallings 2016 Member $0 $0 LYRIC THEATRE COMPANY
Anne Mook 2016 Director $0 $0 J WARREN & LOIS MCCLURE FOUNDATION INC
John S Barkhausen 2015 Co-Chairman $0 $0 ROOTSWORK INC
Dan Dewing Sons Of The Legion 2016 2Nd Vice Com $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Kyle Lewis 2014 Member $0 $0 VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI & SPORTS
Beth Cook 2014 Member $0 $0 VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI & SPORTS
Mark Carpenter Sons Of The Legion 2016 1St Vice Com $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Andrea Cronan 2016 Education Ch $0 $0 LYRIC THEATRE COMPANY
Andy Cook 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI & SPORTS
Ross Almo 2014 Member $0 $0 VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI & SPORTS
Joseph Boone 2016 2Nd Vice Com $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Mike Doten 2014 Member $0 $0 VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI & SPORTS

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.