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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Liz Sortino 2015 Board Member $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY FAMILY CENTER
Mary Corrigan 2015 Board Member $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY FAMILY CENTER
Rebecca Plummer 2015 Vice Preside $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY FAMILY CENTER
Paul Raymond 2016 Northern Area $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Stephanie Spady Kucinskas 2015 Board Member $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY FAMILY CENTER
Lisa Northup 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CORNWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Amy Otten 2015 Secretary $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
James Mcmillan 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT CLUB ACTIVITIES INC
Moise Viau 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CLUB ACTIVITIES INC
Raymond St John 2016 Historian $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
James Shepard 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CLUB ACTIVITIES INC
Michael O'Leary 2015 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Mel Adams 2015 Past President $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Sherry Needle 2015 President Elect $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Arnold Spahn 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Brian Mohr 2015 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Leo Connolly 2015 Service Projects Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Bob Wright 2015 President $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Larry Richburg 2015 Rotary Foundation Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Keith Arlund 2016 Judge Advocate $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Priscilla Spahn 2015 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Norman Frates Jr 2016 President $0 $0 ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
Eric Corbman 2016 Director $0 $0 SYNAGOGUE CORPORATION
Norman Grenier 2016 Deputy Chief $0 $0 CORNWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Andy Donaghy 2016 Director $0 $0 YOUNG AT HEART SENIOR CENTER 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.