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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Cabot Creamery Cooperative 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Cedar Hollow Farm 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Champlain Valley Creamery 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Cobb Hill Cheese 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Consider Bardwell Farm 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Crooked Mile Cheese 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Crowley Cheese Company 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Fairy Tale Farm 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Franklin Foods 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Hi-Land Farm 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Mike Bissaillon 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WOODSTOCK YOUTH HOCKEY INC
Jericho Hill Farm 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Lazy Lady 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Maplebrook Farm 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Midnight Goat Farm 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Mt Mansfield Creamery 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Mountain Home Farm 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Neighborly Farms 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Orb Weaver 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Plymouth Artisan Cheese 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Sage Farm Goat Dairy 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Scholten Family Farm 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Shadagee Farm 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Joy Kitchell 2016 Director $0 $0 SEALL INC
Jules Polk 2015 Director $0 $0 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND 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.