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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Sarah Rosedahl 2016 Jury Co Chair $0 $0 VERMONT HAND CRAFTERS INC
Holly Wyllie 2015 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC
Sarah Baughman 2015 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC
Andrew Perchlik 2016 Treasurer & Sec $0 $0 THE INITIATIVE A VERMONT WALDORF HIGH SCHOOL
Katie Varricchione 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT HAND CRAFTERS INC
Joseph Kiefer 2015 Director $0 $0 JUST BASICS INC
Ted Johnson 2016 President $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Kimberley Lashua 2015 Director $0 $0 JUST BASICS INC
Tim Noonan 2015 Secretary $0 $0 JUST BASICS INC
Jeb Spaulding 2016 Director $0 $0 VSC FOUNDATION INC
Elizabeth Boudreau 2016 Volunteer Coordinato $0 $0 VERMONT HAND CRAFTERS INC
Kerry Demartino 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 JUST BASICS INC
Victoria King 2015 Vice President $0 $0 JUST BASICS INC
Kathleen M Mathis 2017 Board Of Directors President $0 $0 BRANDON SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC
Steve Stouffer 2015 President $0 $0 JUST BASICS INC
Bryan Davis 2016 Co-Vice Chair $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CARSHARE
Jeanne Woodward-Poor 2016 Board Member $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION INC
Janet Wells 2016 Board Member $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION INC
Christine Petrachuk 2016 Vice President $0 $0 NATIONAL ELEVATOR BARGAININGASSOCIATION
Catherine Stern 2016 Board Member $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION INC
Robin Neil 2016 Board Member $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION INC
Bill Pedersen 2016 Trustee $0 $0 WINDSOR COUNTY PARTNERS
Carl Ferenbach 2016 Board Chair $0 $0 HIGH MEADOWS FUND INC
Zach Williams 2016 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE
C Emily Culver 2016 Member At Large $0 $0 VERMONT HAND CRAFTERS 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.