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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Bob Lombard 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ENERGY PARTNERSHIP INC
George Macomber 2016 Director/President $0 $0 BURKE RACING INC
Jan Katz Term Ended 111515 2015 Director $0 $0 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
William Booker 2016 Director/Secretary $0 $0 BURKE RACING INC
John D Hashagen 2016 Asst Treasurer $0 $0 YOUTH SERVICES
Arthur Holcombe 2015 Trustee $0 $0 MARLBORO COLLEGE
Mike Bissaillon 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WOODSTOCK YOUTH HOCKEY INC
Joy Kitchell 2016 Director $0 $0 SEALL INC
Jules Polk 2015 Director $0 $0 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
Dean R Nicyper 2015 Trustee $0 $0 MARLBORO COLLEGE
Hongping Tian 2015 Trustee $0 $0 MARLBORO COLLEGE
Edward E Wendell Jr 2015 Trustee $0 $0 MARLBORO COLLEGE
Marta Willgoose 2015 Trustee $0 $0 MARLBORO COLLEGE
Mara Williams 2015 Trustee $0 $0 MARLBORO COLLEGE
Peter H Zamore 2015 Trustee $0 $0 MARLBORO COLLEGE
Tom Stuessy 2016 Executive Director $0 $0 VERMONT MOUNTAIN BIKE ADVOCATE INC
Craig Whipple 2016 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT MOUNTAIN BIKE ADVOCATE INC
John Peters 2016 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT MOUNTAIN BIKE ADVOCATE INC
Reed Mcmillan 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
Scott Mallory 2016 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT MOUNTAIN BIKE ADVOCATE INC
Melissa Gullotti 2016 Secretary $0 $0 YOUTH SERVICES
Jill Olson 2016 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT MOUNTAIN BIKE ADVOCATE INC
Eddie Bernard 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
Lois Russell 2015 Secretary $0 $0 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
Rachel Selsky 2016 President $0 $0 YOUTH SERVICES

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.