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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Stacy Perkins-Jewell 2016 Director $0 $0 RIVERSIDE RESCUE
Timothy Connolly 2016 Director $0 $0 RIVERSIDE RESCUE
Peter Hawks 2016 President $0 $0 FLYIN RYAN HAWKS FOUNDATION INC
Alicia Hawks 2016 Vice President $0 $0 FLYIN RYAN HAWKS FOUNDATION INC
Samantha Stetson 2016 Director $0 $0 FLYIN RYAN HAWKS FOUNDATION INC
John Painter 2016 Director $0 $0 FLYIN RYAN HAWKS FOUNDATION INC
Adam Comy 2016 Director $0 $0 FLYIN RYAN HAWKS FOUNDATION INC
Shirley Parfitt 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 YOUTH SAFETY COUNCIL OF VERMONT INC
Ben Underhill 2016 Director $0 $0 YOUTH SERVICES
Will Rapp 2016 Chairman Of The Board $0 $0 PLANET BLUEWATER CORPORATION
Nancy Heliotes 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 PLANET BLUEWATER CORPORATION
Pedro Francote 2016 Director $0 $0 PLANET BLUEWATER CORPORATION
Wayne Edwards 2016 Director $0 $0 PLANET BLUEWATER CORPORATION
Wesley Light 2016 Director $0 $0 PLANET BLUEWATER CORPORATION
Dana Alexander Kaleta 2016 Director $0 $0 PLANET BLUEWATER CORPORATION
Valerie Guthrie 2016 Director $0 $0 PLANET BLUEWATER CORPORATION
Dave Willis 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WOODSTOCK YOUTH HOCKEY INC
Amelia Darrow 2016 Director $0 $0 NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INCORPORATED
Judy Fink 2016 Secretary $0 $0 NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INCORPORATED
Ruby Mcadoo 2016 Director $0 $0 NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INCORPORATED
Kathleen Mcgraw 2016 Director $0 $0 NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INCORPORATED
Stephen Phillips 2016 Vice President $0 $0 NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INCORPORATED
Cor Trowbridge 2016 Director $0 $0 NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INCORPORATED
Richard I Stark Jr 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 VERMONT ACADEMY
S Tylor Tregellas 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ACADEMY

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.