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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Bill Clark 2015 Secretary $0 $0 MAPLE LEAF FARM ASS INC
Darsey Moon 2016 Director $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Wayne Fisk 2016 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
Charlotte Robinson 2016 Director $0 $0 MAD RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY FUND
Keith Turman 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 MAPLE LEAF FARM ASS INC
Jessica Bridge 2015 Vice President $0 $0 MAPLE LEAF FARM ASS INC
Bunny Merrill 2016 Director $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
John Moran 2015 Director $0 $0 MAPLE LEAF FARM ASS INC
Michael Couture 2015 Director $0 $0 MAPLE LEAF FARM ASS INC
Walt Looney 2016 Director $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Kent Henderson 2016 Chair $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
Jeffrey Messina 2015 President $0 $0 MAPLE LEAF FARM ASS INC
Brenda Schramm 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY CHILD CARE ASSOC
Mila Lonetto 2016 Director $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Lori Gratton 2015 Secretaty $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY CHILD CARE ASSOC
Nancy Noel 2015 President $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY CHILD CARE ASSOC
Jed Lipsky 2016 Director $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Jorg Skowranek 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT-NEW HAMPSHIRE MARKETING GROUP INC
Alison Hobart 2016 Director $0 $0 MAD RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY FUND
Natalie Beckwith 2016 Director $0 $0 VERY MERRY THEATRE
Joshua Burns 2015 Vice President $0 $0 NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLHOUSE OF BRATTLEBORO INC
Tom Jackman 2016 Director $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Paula Melton 2015 President $0 $0 NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLHOUSE OF BRATTLEBORO INC
David Hosmer 2016 Director $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Neel Desai 2016 President $0 $0 TECHNOLOGY FOR TOMORROW 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.