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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Sweet Rowan Farmstead 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Taylor Farm 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Thistle Hill Farm 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Three Shepherds Farm 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Vermont Creamery 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Vermont Farmstead Cheese Co 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Vermont Shepherd 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Von Trapp Farmstead 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
West River Creamery 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Willow Hill Farm 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Willow Moon Farm 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Woodstock Farm Cheese Co 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Boston Post Dairy 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Cellars At Jasper Hill Farm 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Joy Kitchell 2016 Director $0 $0 SEALL INC
Rachel Fritz Schaal 2016 President $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Meri Spicer 2016 Vice-President $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Jules Polk 2015 Director $0 $0 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
Michael Lee 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Vince Razionale 2016 Past President $0 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Jamie Gravel 2015 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT CHAPTER OF THE CONSTRUCTION SPECIFICATIONS INSTITUTE INC
Reed Mcmillan 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
Leigh Mallory 2015 Director $0 $0 COLCHESTER ATHLETIC BOOSTERS ASSOCIATION INC
Melissa Gullotti 2016 Secretary $0 $0 YOUTH SERVICES
Eddie Bernard 2015 Vice Chair $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.