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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Duane Peterson 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Andrew Macfarland 2014 Trustee $0 $0 HARRIS HILL SKI JUMP INC
Sandy Harris 2014 Trustee $0 $0 HARRIS HILL SKI JUMP INC
John Medose 2016 Board $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Elizabeth Richards 2014 Trustee $0 $0 HARRIS HILL SKI JUMP INC
Clare Buckley 2015 Executive Direc $0 $0 VERMONT WHOLESALE BEVERAGE ASSOCIATION
Leslie Roth 2016 Board $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Jules Polk 2015 Director $0 $0 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
Jan Katz Term Ended 111515 2015 Director $0 $0 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
Curtis Benzle Term Ended 111515 2015 Director $0 $0 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
Ann Brazier 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT WHOLESALE BEVERAGE ASSOCIATION
Kse Partners Llp 2015 Contract Svcs $0 $0 VERMONT WHOLESALE BEVERAGE ASSOCIATION
Denis Backus 2016 Adjutant And Service Offic $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION CLUB
Roseann Grimes 2015 Member $0 $0 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
Elizabeth Fisher 2015 Secretary $0 $0 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
Carol Bushey Term Ended 2016 Director $0 $0 RANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Patricia Boyle 2015 Chair $0 $0 TWIN VALLEY SENIORS INC
Denny Frehsee 2015 Member $0 $0 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
Alice Emmons 2015 Member $0 $0 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
Ted Elzey Term Ended 2016 Director $0 $0 RANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Evan Bolivar 2015 Member $0 $0 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
Troy Roesch 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 LANDMARK TRUST USA INC
John Westbrook 2016 Director $0 $0 RANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Craig Miskovich 2016 Secretary $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO DEVELOPMENT CREDIT CORPORATION REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS I
Patrice Champagne 2015 Vice President $0 $0 LANDMARK TRUST USA 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.