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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jeff Lanoue 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SAMARITAN HOUSE INC
Erica Hare 2016 President And Secretary $0 $31,533 VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION INC
Meghan Jarvis 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SAMARITAN HOUSE INC
Corey Parent 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SAMARITAN HOUSE INC
Kathy Keenan 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SAMARITAN HOUSE INC
Carisa Ledoux 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SAMARITAN HOUSE INC
Timothy Hurlbut 2016 Vp $0 $0 HARD ACK INC
David Southwick 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SAMARITAN HOUSE INC
Brad Ferland 2016 President $0 $0 SAMARITAN HOUSE INC
Rita Ricketson 2015 Public Director $0 $0 VEPP INC
Sarah Bean 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 SAMARITAN HOUSE INC
John Holzcheiter 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SAMARITAN HOUSE INC
Steve Farrington 2016 Trustee $0 $0 SHARON ACADEMY
Gini Milkey 2015 Public Director $0 $0 VEPP INC
Lisa Ginett 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF LAND SURVEYORS INC
Keith Van Iderstine 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF LAND SURVEYORS INC
Gayle Burchard 2016 President $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF LAND SURVEYORS INC
Clarke Collins 2016 President $0 $0 MAGIC MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Nate Yager 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF LAND SURVEYORS INC
Mark Driscoll 2015 Director $0 $0 VEPP INC
Neil Houston 2016 Sargeant At Arms $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Ken Nolan 2015 Director $0 $0 VEPP INC
Carrol Bird 2016 Second Vice And Adjutant $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Chris Reilly 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 MAGIC MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS CENTER INC
John Holzcheiter 2016 President $0 $0 HARD ACK 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.