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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Mike Lane 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Jim Doherty 2016 Captain $0 $0 MANCHESTER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION
Karen Corbman 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC
Hemant Tamang 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC
Gisele Macharg 2015 Trustee $0 $0 ROYALTON MEMORIAL LIBARY ASSOC
Michelle Little 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Hillary Orsini 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Mike Shirling Resigned 2015 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Destenie Vital 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Jeff Small 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
James Fox 2016 Director - Trp A $0 $0 VERMONT TROOPERS ASSOCIATION INC
Dennise Casey 2016 Secretary $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Carlton Dunn 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Tom Zoufally 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 MANCHESTER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION
Katie Langrock 2016 President $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Kristie Johnson 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 WONDERFEET KIDS MUSEUM
David Petersen 2016 Director - Trp B $0 $0 VERMONT TROOPERS ASSOCIATION INC
Bidur Dahal 2015 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Rev Earl Kooperkamp 2015 President $0 $0 VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC
Robert Smith 2017 Director $0 $0 BRANDON SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC
Kate O'Connor 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Jarett Berke Mba 2016 Community Member $0 $0 VETERANS EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOC OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC
Dennis Pearson Trustee 2015 185 Buttermilk Falls Rd, Ludlow, Vt 05149 $0 $0 BLACK RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Anne Lezak 2015 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Alexandra Howell Phd 2016 Research Scientist, Wrj Vamc $0 $0 VETERANS EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOC OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND 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.