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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Joanne Lebrun 2015 Director $0 $0 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE FIRE AND RESCUE INC
Rachel Potts 2016 Director $0 $0 KPAS INC
Vanessa Kittell 2016 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
Brian T Mathis 2016 Director $0 $0 TRIPLETT FUND INC
Lori Hayes 2016 President $0 $0 VERY MERRY THEATRE
Bill Miller 2016 Director $0 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Dawn Ellinwood 2015 Director $0 $40,155 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE FIRE AND RESCUE INC
Rev Raymond J Doherty Sse 2015 Director $0 $41 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE FIRE AND RESCUE INC
Gretchen Browe 2016 Director $0 $0 KPAS INC
Michael P Chmielewski 2015 Director $0 $0 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE FIRE AND RESCUE INC
Kirsten Nagiba 2015 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT BALLET THEATER INC
Jane Spina 2016 Secretary $0 $0 KPAS INC
Patty Rainville 2016 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
Alexander Nagiba 2015 President $0 $0 VERMONT BALLET THEATER INC
Lexi Leacock 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 KPAS INC
Judy Nommik 2015 Director $0 $0 RURAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INC
Rob Moore 2015 Director $0 $0 RURAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INC
Whitney Doenges 2016 Vice President $0 $0 KPAS INC
Dan Connor 2016 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
Maurice A Selinger Iii 2016 Secretary $0 $0 TRIPLETT FUND INC
Ed Jarrosak 2015 Director $0 $0 RURAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INC
Harold Bailey 2015 Director $0 $0 RURAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INC
Gina Gaidys 2016 President $0 $0 KPAS INC
Charles Carter 2015 Director $0 $0 RURAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INC
Robert Wilkins 2015 Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0 RURAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION 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.