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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
David Plants 2014 Secretary $0 $0 GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION
Kim Hunter 2016 Vice President $0 $0 POULTNEY RESCUE SQUAD INC
Andrew Jensen 2016 Director - Trp B $0 $0 VERMONT TROOPERS ASSOCIATION INC
David Parmelee 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION
Gary Henricksen 2014 Vice President (End 3/2015) $0 $0 GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION
William Jones 2016 Captain $0 $0 POULTNEY RESCUE SQUAD INC
James Kowalski 2014 President (End 10/2014) $0 $0 GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION
John Clark 2014 President (Eff 10/2014) $0 $0 GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION
Scott Dunlap 2016 Director - Trp C $0 $0 VERMONT TROOPERS ASSOCIATION INC
Carrie Lin Allen 2017 Secretary $0 $0 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT CREDIT UNIONS INC
Regina Kulbis 2015 Executive Director $0 $0 CAMP NERINGA INC
Chris Cady 2016 President $0 $0 FAMILIES FIRST IN SOUTHERN VERMONT INC
Dawn Truesdell 2014 Director $0 $0 GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION
Catherine Stratton 2014 Director $0 $0 GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION
Craig Rexford 2016 Trustee $0 $0 LOCAL 693 EDUCATION FUND
Victor Rabinowitch 2014 Director (End 8/2015) $0 $0 GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION
Patricia Mack 2014 Director (Eff. 1/2015) $0 $0 GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION
Joseph Szarejko 2016 Director - Trp C $0 $0 VERMONT TROOPERS ASSOCIATION INC
Vance Hosford 2014 Director $0 $0 GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION
Peter Galbraith 2014 Director $0 $0 GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION
J Walter Corcoran 2014 Director $0 $0 GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION
Lyndall Boal 2014 Director (Eff. 8/2015) $0 $0 GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION
Ernie Wheeler 2016 Trustee $0 $0 LOCAL 693 EDUCATION FUND
Thomas Mozzer 2016 Director - Vcjtc $0 $0 VERMONT TROOPERS ASSOCIATION INC
Richard Cefalo 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ARLINGTON RESCUE SQUAD 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.