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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Joe Fortier 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BRATTLEBORO INC
Lisa Ford 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BRATTLEBORO INC
Celeste Girrell 2016 Member At Large $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Allyson Laackman 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Kate Collins 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BRATTLEBORO INC
Scott Aronowitz 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BRATTLEBORO INC
Robert Nassau Md 2016 Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BRATTLEBORO INC
Steve Gordon 2016 Vice President $0 $0 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BRATTLEBORO INC
Tig Tillinghast 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC
Rajeev Goyal 2016 Director $0 $0 PHULMAYA FOUNDATION LTD
Betsy Gentile 2016 Past Board Member $0 $0 LANDMARK TRUST USA INC
Marcia Steckler 2016 President $0 $0 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BRATTLEBORO INC
Jack Lee 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC
Ben Williams 2016 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Lindsey Klecan 2016 Clerk $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Brucie Hubbell 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC
David Kelley 2016 Director $0 $0 PHULMAYA FOUNDATION LTD
Karl Furstenberg 2016 Lyme Representative $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Susan Weider 2016 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Harrison Kahn 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC
Suzanna Liepmann 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Donna Steinberg 2016 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Kim Gleason 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Steve Conlon 2016 Vice President $0 $0 PHULMAYA FOUNDATION LTD
Adam Gebb 2016 President $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY INCORPORATED

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.