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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Leslie Turpin 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER
Anthony Seeger 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER
Clarence Haynes 2016 Rutland Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Matt Schlein 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER
Wolfgang Mieder 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER
Emily Long 2016 Past President $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Cindy Wilcox 2016 Board Member $0 $0 LANDMARK TRUST USA INC
Phayvanh Luekhamhan 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER
Evie Lovett 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER
Neil Odell 2016 Windsor Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Carol Dickson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER
John Connell 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER
Amy Mcmullen 2016 Windsor A. Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Jane Beck 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER
Roger Albee 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER
Clifton Long 2016 Wash/Orange Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Ann Singiser 2016 Vice-Chair $0 $0 VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER
Melinda Moulton 2016 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER
Flor Diaz-Smith 2016 Wash/Orange Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Scottie Ginn 2016 Board Member Through 8/16 $0 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Bill Flynt 2016 Board Member $0 $0 LANDMARK TRUST USA INC
Leah Hamilton 2016 Vice President $0 $0 HINESBURG NURSERY SCHOOL
Karen Carlson 2016 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE
Brenda Benoir 2016 Board Member - Vershire $0 $0 CHELSEA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER
Laura Sibilia 2016 Windham Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION

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.