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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lois Russell 2015 Secretary $0 $0 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
Paul Wyncoop 2015 President $0 $0 AURORA SCHOOL
Paul Collins 2015 Jr Past Govnr $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS LODGE NO 527 LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Phyllis L Drury 2016 President $0 $0 THE ETHAN ALLEN HOMESTEAD MUSEUM INC
John Devino 2016 Vice President $0 $0 THE ETHAN ALLEN HOMESTEAD MUSEUM INC
Thomas O Mchugh 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 THE ETHAN ALLEN HOMESTEAD MUSEUM INC
Glenda B Hauenstein 2016 Secretary $0 $0 THE ETHAN ALLEN HOMESTEAD MUSEUM INC
Robert Powlus 2016 Director $0 $0 THE ETHAN ALLEN HOMESTEAD MUSEUM INC
John Achenbach 2016 Director $0 $0 THE ETHAN ALLEN HOMESTEAD MUSEUM INC
Amy White 2016 Director $0 $0 THE ETHAN ALLEN HOMESTEAD MUSEUM INC
Thomas Sharpley 2016 Director $0 $0 THE ETHAN ALLEN HOMESTEAD MUSEUM INC
Willard S Randall 2016 Director $0 $0 THE ETHAN ALLEN HOMESTEAD MUSEUM INC
Rachel Selsky 2016 President $0 $0 YOUTH SERVICES
Vaerie Dean 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WOODSTOCK YOUTH HOCKEY INC
John Dumville 2016 Secretary $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE MORRILL HOMESTEAD INC
John B Reese Jr 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE MORRILL HOMESTEAD INC
Bill Kilpatrick 2015 Director $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
Cathy Coonan 2016 Vice President $0 $0 YOUTH SERVICES
Bobbi J Kilburn 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 YOUTH SERVICES
Peter Wolf 2016 Secretary $0 $0 MOUNT MANSFIELD COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Ted Lyman 2016 Bd Member $0 $0 MOUNT MANSFIELD COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Jay Smith 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WOODSTOCK YOUTH HOCKEY INC
Roger Cartee 2015 President-El $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Barbara Pacyna 2016 Director $0 $0 YOUNG AT HEART SENIOR CENTER INC
Fred Ober 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE

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.