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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Sandra Mcguire 2015 President $0 $0 PENNINGTON GROUP
Mike Simoneau 2015 Vice Preside $0 $0 PENNINGTON GROUP
Jeff Dudley 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 PENNINGTON GROUP
Bill Pence 2015 Secretary $0 $0 PENNINGTON GROUP
John Heald 2016 Dept Commander $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Jason Sicard 2015 1St Vice Pre $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
Brooke Wilkinson 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CREATIVE PRESCHOOL INC
Kiersten Harlow 2016 Secretary $0 $0 CREATIVE PRESCHOOL INC
Melissa Gomez 2013 Member $0 $0 HARTLAND COOPERATIVE NURSERY SCHOOL
Dirk Nakazawa 2013 Board Member $0 $0 NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF VERMONT INC
Janelle Gendimenico 2013 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN PERFORMING ARTS INC
David Berno 2016 2Nd Asst Chief $0 $0 CORNWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Patricia Sears 2013 President $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM TRAVEL & TOURISM ASSOCIATION
Anne Robbins Tansantisuk 2013 Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Peter Albert 2013 President $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION RECOVERY INC
Ernie Dematties 2016 Vice President $0 $0 YOUNG AT HEART SENIOR CENTER INC
Carl G Taylor 2013 At-Large Member $0 $0 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Moira Durnin 2015 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Parker Rice 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LONG TRAIL SCHOOL INC
Sue Baston 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LONG TRAIL SCHOOL INC
John Mosher 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LONG TRAIL SCHOOL INC
Tami Blanchard 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LONG TRAIL SCHOOL INC
Andrea Ross 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LONG TRAIL SCHOOL INC
Alan Binnick 2015 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Frank Killay 2016 Necman $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION

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.