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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Gina Pattison 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM AND ART CENTER INC
Laurel Colles 2016 Board Member - Until 10/2016 $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Nisha Biswal 2016 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Christopher Sink 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM AND ART CENTER INC
Rick Barton 2016 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
John A Dooley 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Ken Klothen 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM AND ART CENTER INC
Ramsey A Luhr 2016 Secretary $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Luann Bennett 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Christie Herbert 2016 Secretary $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM AND ART CENTER INC
Greg Farmer 2016 President $0 $0 LANDMARK TRUST USA INC
Richard Paisner 2016 Chair - Until 09/2017 $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Keri Franzoni 2015 Secretary $0 $0 WONDERFEET KIDS MUSEUM
Margaret Everitt 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM AND ART CENTER INC
Todd Einig 2016 Trustee $0 $0 HARRIS HILL SKI JUMP INC
Sally Seymour 2016 Trustee $0 $0 HARRIS HILL SKI JUMP INC
Sean Conley 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM AND ART CENTER INC
Kate Mcginn 2016 Trustee $0 $0 HARRIS HILL SKI JUMP INC
Gail Bourque 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 HARRIS HILL SKI JUMP INC
Mark Burke 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM AND ART CENTER INC
Sandy Harris 2016 Secretary $0 $0 HARRIS HILL SKI JUMP INC
Andrew Rome 2016 Trustee $0 $0 HARRIS HILL SKI JUMP INC
Kim Benzel 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM AND ART CENTER INC
Tristan Toleno 2016 Past-President $0 $0 LANDMARK TRUST USA INC
Rebecca Busier 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 HINESBURG NURSERY SCHOOL

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.