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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Bruce Corrette 2016 Director $0 $0 LYNDON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION
James Gallagher 2015 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
James Wheeler 2016 Director $0 $0 LYNDON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Catherine Fournier 2016 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA ADULT DAY SERVICES
Anthony Lazzara 2015 Director $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
Barry Hertz 2016 Director - Secretary $0 $0 LYNDON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Stuart Hurd 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY NETWORKINC
Meg Woolmington 2015 President $0 $0 VILLAGE SCHOOL OF NORTH BENNINGTON
Roena Whitehill 2016 Director $0 $0 LYNDON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Amelia Wylie Lawrence Darrow 2016 Secretary $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA ADULT DAY SERVICES
G Bartlett 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER ELKS OF THE USA
Paula Holwerda 2016 Parent Director $0 $0 THE CHILD CARE CENTER IN NORWICH INC
Rachel Schumacher 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VILLAGE SCHOOL OF NORTH BENNINGTON
Pete Niles 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VILLAGE SCHOOL OF NORTH BENNINGTON
Sharon Reihmer 2016 Director $0 $0 LYNDON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION
David Monks 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VILLAGE SCHOOL OF NORTH BENNINGTON
Don Mckenna 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VILLAGE SCHOOL OF NORTH BENNINGTON
Mark Hayes 2016 Director $0 $0 LYNDON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Andrew Loney 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA ADULT DAY SERVICES
Jeb Gorham 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VILLAGE SCHOOL OF NORTH BENNINGTON
Brian Mckenna 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VILLAGE SCHOOL OF NORTH BENNINGTON
Mike Flynn 2016 Director $0 $0 LYNDON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Ernest Lafontaine 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VILLAGE SCHOOL OF NORTH BENNINGTON
Erik Hemmett 2015 President $0 $0 VERMONT CHIROPRATIC ASSOCIATION
Wayne Hamilton 2016 Director - Treasurer $0 $0 LYNDON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION

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.