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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Helen Riehle 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CHITTENDEN COUNTY GOVERMENT ACCESS CHANNEL TRUST
Kenneth Alexander 2016 President $0 $0 J MESSAGE GROUP CORP
Deborah Alexander 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 J MESSAGE GROUP CORP
William Fead 2016 Corp Secretary $0 $0 J MESSAGE GROUP CORP
Ginny Lyons 2016 Secretary $0 $0 CHITTENDEN COUNTY GOVERMENT ACCESS CHANNEL TRUST
Dennis Gallant 2016 Director $0 $0 SOUL SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC
Herve Pelletier 2015 Director $0 $0 NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INCORPORATED
Mrs Siri S Gadbois 2015 President/Director $0 $86,011 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Daniel Johnson 2016 Secretary $0 $0 TRANSFORMING INDIVIDUAL LIVES TODAY TILT
Michael Johnson 2016 Chairman $0 $0 TRANSFORMING INDIVIDUAL LIVES TODAY TILT
Isabelle Johnson 2016 Ttee $0 $0 TRANSFORMING INDIVIDUAL LIVES TODAY TILT
Sherie Renne 2016 Ttee $0 $0 TRANSFORMING INDIVIDUAL LIVES TODAY TILT
Reverend Jim Kirk 2016 Vice Chairman $0 $0 TRANSFORMING INDIVIDUAL LIVES TODAY TILT
Angela Ross 2016 Ttee $0 $0 TRANSFORMING INDIVIDUAL LIVES TODAY TILT
Larry Jess 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 TRANSFORMING INDIVIDUAL LIVES TODAY TILT
Richard Taylor 2015 Board Member $0 $0 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC
Michelle Brandon 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 FAR POST SOCCER CLUB INC
Frederick Glover 2016 Director $0 $0 BLACK RIVER VALLEY SENIOR CENTER
Courntey Lihatsh 2016 Chairman $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD LEARNING GARDEN INC
Kelley Newell 2015 Vice Preside $0 $0 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC
Claudia Turnbull 2015 Trustee $0 $0 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Lucinda Garthwaite 2015 Trustee $0 $0 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Mark Jones 2015 Trustee $0 $0 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Meg O'Donnell 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC
Guido Mase 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVEHERBALISM

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.