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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Patricia Mascis 2015 Director $0 $0 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE FIRE AND RESCUE INC
Elissa Perry 2016 Trustee $0 $0 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Walter Blasberg 2015 President $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Andy Snyder 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CRAFTS COUNCIL
General Johnson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Gary Anderson 2015 Director $0 $0 MENNEN ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION INC
Steve Bronstein 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CRAFTS COUNCIL
Anthony Holliday Jr 2016 Trustee $0 $0 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Carol Barbierri 2015 Executive Director $0 $0 ARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE INC
Marilyn King 2015 Director $0 $0 ARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE INC
Richard Schramm 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Roderick A Kyle 2017 President And Acting Ceo $0 $92,143 ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION RISK INSTITUTE INC
Celeste Mccartney 2015 Director $0 $0 ARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE INC
Mary Fran Leone-Charbonneau 2015 Director $0 $0 ARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE INC
Avram Patt 2016 Trustee $0 $0 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Lori Nicol 2015 Secretary $0 $0 ARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE INC
Dawn Russ 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 ARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE INC
Joseph Orange 2016 Trustee $0 $0 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Karen Fortin 2016 Co-Chair $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
Jennie Moon 2015 Vice President $0 $0 ARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE INC
Ellen Fisher 2015 President $0 $0 ARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE INC
Lisa Rubin 2015 Secretary $0 $0 WASHINGTON CENTRAL FRIENDS OF EDUCATION INC
Mark Jones 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Don Mcfeeters 2016 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
Grace Wagner 2016 2016 Chapter President $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY

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.