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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
James Sistare 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT MOUNTAIN BIKE ADVOCATE INC
Paul Nadeau 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT MOUNTAIN BIKE ADVOCATE INC
Terri Melincoff 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT MOUNTAIN BIKE ADVOCATE INC
Ted Olson 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT MOUNTAIN BIKE ADVOCATE INC
Adam Morse 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT MOUNTAIN BIKE ADVOCATE INC
Andy Stone 2016 Director $0 $0 MAGIC MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Kristi Rikert 2016 Director $0 $0 MAGIC MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Lisa Northup 2016 3Rd Captain $0 $0 CORNWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Jenny Mishoe 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CAMP TESAHE INC
Kenneth Aaron Dunn 2016 Secretary $0 $0 CAMP TESAHE INC
Thomas H Fox 2015 Trustee $0 $0 WORLD LEARNING INC
Shirley Brown 2016 Director $0 $0 YOUNG AT HEART SENIOR CENTER INC
Mike Hendrickson 2016 Director $0 $0 ROZALIA PROJECT
Geo Honigford 2015 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Emily Long 2015 President $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Don Hayes 2016 Director $0 $0 MAGIC MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS CENTER INC
David Schoales 2015 Windham Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Elaine Carpenter 2015 Franklin Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Mike Paquette 2016 Trails Cordinator $0 $0 FOOTE OF THE MOUNTAIN SNO-TRAVELERS INC
Raph Worrick 2016 2Nd Captain $0 $0 CORNWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Stuart Weppler 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Celeste Girrell 2015 Cal/So Esx Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Mary Wright 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 FOOTE OF THE MOUNTAIN SNO-TRAVELERS INC
Penny Gendron 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ACADEMY
Stuart Eisenkraft 2014 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.