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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Peter Lane 2015 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Ned Houston 2015 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Sean Stearns 2016 3Rd Asst Chief $0 $0 CORNWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Nancy Owens 2015 Director $0 $0 VERNON SENIOR HOUSING INC
Kenn Sassorossi 2015 Director $0 $0 VERNON SENIOR HOUSING INC
Dot Bechard 2015 Director $0 $0 VERNON SENIOR HOUSING INC
Lauren Phelps 2016 Board Member $0 $0 CREATIVE PRESCHOOL INC
Sulynn Walton 2016 Chairman $0 $0 CREATIVE PRESCHOOL INC
Dominique Couture 2013 Board Member $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF LAMOILLE COUNTY INC
Trina Hosmer 2015 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Tricia Heaton 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LONG TRAIL SCHOOL INC
Sue Skaskiw 2015 Executive Director $0 $0 VERMONT VOLUNTEER SERVICES FOR ANIMALS
Heather Hartford 2016 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD ON THE MOVE INC
Karen Heinzmann 2015 Vice-Chair $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Tom Hernon 2016 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD ON THE MOVE INC
Deborah Baker 2016 President $0 $0 HOOVED ANIMAL SANCTUARY
Bonnie Pierpont 2016 Officer $0 $0 HOOVED ANIMAL SANCTUARY
Donald Tetrault 2016 Adjutant $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Jane Porter 2016 Officer $0 $0 HOOVED ANIMAL SANCTUARY
Jan Lee 2015 Board Of Directors $0 $0 VERMONT VOLUNTEER SERVICES FOR ANIMALS
Greg Skaskiw 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT VOLUNTEER SERVICES FOR ANIMALS
Janet Klimenok 2015 Board Of Directors $0 $0 VERMONT VOLUNTEER SERVICES FOR ANIMALS
Alan Woodbury 2016 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD ON THE MOVE INC
Steve Fernandes 2015 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Paul Demers 2015 Board Chair $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION

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.