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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Keith Pitman 2016 Vice President $0 $0 NORTHEAST ASSOCIATION OF ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES INC
Mickie Richardson 2015 Board Member $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Anne Silberfarb 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC
Ken Weston 2015 Ronald Larose $0 $0 BRISTOL RECREATION CLUB
Ron Williamson 2015 Trustee $0 $0 BRISTOL RECREATION CLUB
Samantha Davis-Hiscock 2015 Football Direct $0 $0 BARRE YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION INC
Mike Hulbert 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 BARRE YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION INC
Mary Cohen 2016 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
David Fournier 2015 Chairman $0 $0 BARRE YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION INC
Tom Clavelle 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Mark Werle 2016 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Debra Williamson 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC
Chip Troiano 2016 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE
Theresa Alberghini Dipalma 2015 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Michael Read 2015 President $0 $0 VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC
Peter Waldman 2015 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC
Caroline Youngblood 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC
David Dudey 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC
Marta Cambra 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC
Jo Anne Edwards 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC
Polly Mcmurtry 2015 Orchestra Representative $0 $0 VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC
Becky Bowen 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC
Stephanie Miller Taylor 2015 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Shana Louiselle 2016 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Ron Lafountain 2015 Chair $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

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.