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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Richard Cefalo 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ARLINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Dan Yates 2015 President $0 $0 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
John Lawrence 2016 Trustee $0 $0 LOCAL 693 EDUCATION FUND
Barbara Ternes 2015 Member $0 $0 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
Drew Richards 2015 Member $0 $0 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
John O'Farrell 2016 Trustee $0 $0 LOCAL 693 EDUCATION FUND
Maximilliano Trenosky 2016 Director - Trp D $0 $0 VERMONT TROOPERS ASSOCIATION INC
Julie Peterson 2015 Member $0 $0 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
John Mabie 2015 Member $0 $0 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
Dan Ingold 2016 Vice President $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RACQUETSPORTS INC
Martin Langeveld 2015 Member $0 $0 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
Mary Houghton 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
Moss Kahler 2016 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RACQUETSPORTS INC
Emilio Gomez Aceedo 2017 Director $0 $0 ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION RISK INSTITUTE INC
Scott Seidel 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ARLINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Amy Cunningham 2016 Chairman $0 $0 MOBIUS INC
Claudette Hollenbeck 2015 Member $0 $0 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
Teta Hilsdon 2015 Member $0 $0 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
Bill Penniman 2016 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RACQUETSPORTS INC
Jeri Tyl 2015 Borad Member $0 $0 WONDERFEET KIDS MUSEUM
Mike Donahue 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT MOUNTAIN BIKE ADVOCATE INC
Jean Hiriart 2017 Director $0 $0 ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION RISK INSTITUTE INC
Alan Mcpherson 2015 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT WHOLESALE BEVERAGE ASSOCIATION
Tina Heath 2015 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT MOUNTAIN BIKE ADVOCATE INC
Ann Gammell 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT HIGHWAY SAFETY ALLIANCE

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.