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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Leonard Hall 2016 Trustee $0 $0 EAST DOVER VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Jon Abel 2016 Chief $0 $0 EAST DOVER VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Amanda Mcdermott 2016 Director $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY WORKS
Kandi St James 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 EAST DOVER VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Patsy Bemis 2016 Clerk $0 $0 EAST DOVER VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Robin Migdelany 2016 Vice President $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY WORKS
Robert Stevens 2016 Vice President $0 $0 THE BRATTLEBORO DEVELOPMENT CREDIT CORPORATION
Tom Haushalter 2016 President $0 $0 WINDSOR PUBLIC LIBRARY
Betsy Gentile 2016 President $0 $0 FOOD CONNECTS
Doug Bouchard 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COUNCIL OF DEVELOPMENTAL AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC
Francis Fraga 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Kevin Ryan 2015 Trustee $0 $0 CRIME RESEARCH GROUP INC
Joyce Miller 2015 Board Member - Tunbridge $0 $0 CHELSEA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER
Duane Moulton 2017 Chief $0 $0 CHARLESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Martha Rideout 2015 Board Member $0 $0 WONDERFEET KIDS MUSEUM
Ann Hare 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY WORKS
Megan Schultz 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
Tom Kupfer 2015 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT MOUNTAIN BIKE ADVOCATE INC
Chris Meyers 2016 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST REGION OF THE CONSTRUCTION SPECIFICATION INS INC
Dr Mitchell Knisbacher 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
Meredith Burak 2016 Secretary $0 $0 HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
Richard Weintraub 2016 Vice President $0 $0 HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
Meaghan Winter 2016 Director $0 $0 HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
Brian Leet 2016 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST REGION OF THE CONSTRUCTION SPECIFICATION INS INC
Kate Neubauer 2016 Director $0 $0 ROZALIA PROJECT

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.