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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Deb Caruso 2015 Director $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU AND BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
Theresa Taylor 2015 Vice Chairman $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU AND BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
Walter Frame 2016 Treasurer/V Chr $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Jane Edwards 2015 Director $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU AND BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
Judy Brassard 2015 Treas/Secretary $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU AND BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
Chess Brownell 2016 Chairman $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Andy Bachand 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
Nancy Engels 2015 President $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
Sarah Gentry Tischler 2016 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC
Nancy Krakower 2016 Director $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Jim Lefevre 2016 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC
Joseph Wilson 2015 Vice-District Governor $0 $378 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Roger Witten 2016 Director $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Chad Tyler 2016 Co-Chair $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
Jeremy Herbery 2016 President $0 $0 TRIPLETT FUND INC
Andrea Houlihan 2016 Director $0 $0 VERY MERRY THEATRE
Steve Dale 2016 Director $0 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Jason Bapp 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 LUC GATES FOUNDATION INC
Catherine Conley 2015 Administrator $0 $0 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
David Sanville 2015 Cfo $0 $18,619 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Dave Wilkens 2016 Director $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Susan Matteson 2015 Chair $0 $0 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Kevin Donovan Former Mahhc Ceo 2015 Trustee $0 $59,784 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Ryan Percy 2016 Director $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Paul Hansen 2016 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN 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.