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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Martha Lewin 2015 Director $0 $0 INSPIRE FOR AUTISM INC
Cheryl Kelley 2015 Secretary $0 $0 INSPIRE FOR AUTISM INC
Nancy Burzon 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ADULT LEARNING INC
Phyillis Lanz 2016 Vice President $0 $0 PROCTOR FREE LIBRARY
Anthony Dinino 2015 Director $0 $0 INSPIRE FOR AUTISM INC
Kathleen Vranos 2015 Chairman $0 $0 INSPIRE FOR AUTISM INC
Larry Sudlow 2016 Board Chair $0 $0 VERMONT ADULT LEARNING INC
Allen Chip Evans 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT ADULT LEARNING INC
Joseph Goodrich 2016 Overseer/Vp $0 $0 VERMONT STATE GRANGE INC
Carolyn Kehler 2016 Director $0 $0 HIGH MEADOWS FUND INC
Candace Lewis 2015 President $0 $0 FRANKLIN GRAND ISLE WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC
Shannon Mclenithan 2016 Director $0 $0 OAK HILL CHILDRENS CENTER
Christina Andrews 2016 Director $0 $0 OAK HILL CHILDRENS CENTER
Mary Fregosi 2016 President $0 $0 PROCTOR FREE LIBRARY
Samantha Spence 2016 President $0 $0 OAK HILL CHILDRENS CENTER
Roland Metevier 2016 Director $0 $0 CONNECTING HOPE INC
Lynn Frost 2016 Director $0 $0 OAK HILL CHILDRENS CENTER
Elizabeth Lowry 2016 Exec Committee $0 $0 VERMONT STATE GRANGE INC
Dorothy Slack 2016 Member At La $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Thomas Friedrichs 2016 Director $0 $0 CONNECTING HOPE INC
Charles Macavoy 2016 Director $0 $0 CONNECTING HOPE INC
Christina Duval 2016 Director $0 $0 OAK HILL CHILDRENS CENTER
Gordy Wells 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CONNECTING HOPE INC
Barbara Mcmahon 2016 Secretary $0 $0 CONNECTING HOPE INC
Suzanne St Hillare Mason 2016 Director $0 $0 OAK HILL CHILDRENS CENTER

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.