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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Rosalyn Graham 2016 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TR
Abbie Corse 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 READSBORO PRESCHOOL INCORPORATED
Margaret Sheridan-Lefebvre 2015 Correspondence,Acting Secretar $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER AUXILIARY
Virginia Burleson 2015 Secretary $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER AUXILIARY
Sandra Dooley 2016 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TR
Kesha Ram 2015 Chairman $0 $0 CENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES INC
Hal Colston 2015 Chair $0 $0 CENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES INC
Constance Westfall 2015 Committee Chair $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER AUXILIARY
Richard Deyoung 2015 Director $0 $0 WILSON HOUSE OF EAST DORSET
Marilyn Martinez 2016 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS EMERGENCY UNIT INC
Virginia Hagen 2016 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS EMERGENCY UNIT INC
Charles Jaquish 2016 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS EMERGENCY UNIT INC
Christie Aldrich 2016 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS EMERGENCY UNIT INC
David Royer 2016 Director $0 $0 ORLEANS EMERGENCY UNIT INC
Jeanne Pizii 2015 Past President, Vice President $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER AUXILIARY
Joy Wood 2016 Secretary $0 $0 CALEDONIA MAPLE ASSOCIATION INC
Shawn Messier 2016 Vice President $0 $0 CALEDONIA MAPLE ASSOCIATION INC
William Warden 2016 State Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA MAPLE ASSOCIATION INC
Debra Messier 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CALEDONIA MAPLE ASSOCIATION INC
Marc Luneau 2016 County Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA MAPLE ASSOCIATION INC
Keith Gadapee 2016 County Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA MAPLE ASSOCIATION INC
Bob Robbins 2016 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TR
Kristy Birch 2016 Director $0 $0 READSBORO PRESCHOOL INCORPORATED
Cathy Frank 2016 Board Chair $0 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Jill Lowrey 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CSSU BUCCANEERS YOUTH FOOTBALL INC

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.