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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
David Mears 2016 Director $0 $0 HIGH MEADOWS FUND INC
Ross Murray 2015 Secretary $0 $0 HASKELL FREE LIBRARY INC
Sue Granworth 2015 Trustee $0 $0 HASKELL FREE LIBRARY INC
Richard Baker 2017 Director $0 $0 BRANDON SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC
Julie Mckenna 2015 President $0 $0 QUECHEE ALPINE SKI CLUB INC
Susi Benoit 2016 Member Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE AREA BOARD OF REALTORS
Arvid Johnson 2016 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST SLOPES INC
Andrew Gillespie 2016 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE AREA BOARD OF REALTORS
Sherry Wilson 2016 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE AREA BOARD OF REALTORS
Jeff Beattie 2016 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE AREA BOARD OF REALTORS
Dave Jamieson 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 LAMOILLE AREA BOARD OF REALTORS
Carolyn Lin 2016 Trustee $0 $0 YOUTH CATALYTICS INC
Carl Demrow 2016 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHEAST SLOPES INC
Orly Yadin 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA
Dody Day 2016 Secretary $0 $0 LAMOILLE AREA BOARD OF REALTORS
Mckee Macdonald 2016 Vice President $0 $0 LAMOILLE AREA BOARD OF REALTORS
Rosemarie Burton 2016 Trustee $0 $0 YOUTH CATALYTICS INC
Geoffrey Wolcott 2016 President $0 $0 LAMOILLE AREA BOARD OF REALTORS
Mary Imbornone 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 YOUTH CATALYTICS INC
David Simpson 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHEAST SLOPES INC
Patricia Forbes 2016 Board Of Directors $0 $0 CREDIT UNION OF VERMONT
Sheila Celata 2016 Board Chair $0 $0 YOUTH CATALYTICS INC
Ronald Savageau 2016 Board Of Directors $0 $0 CREDIT UNION OF VERMONT
Shirley Mckirryher 2016 Board Of Directors $0 $0 CREDIT UNION OF VERMONT
Wade Pierson 2016 Vice President $0 $0 NORTHEAST SLOPES 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.