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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
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
Michael Haynes 2016 Director $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Laura Warren 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Virginia Coolidge 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Jesse Goldfine 2016 Director $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Ashley Woods 2016 Director $0 $0 MAD RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY FUND
Anne G Bugbee 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Rick Wood 2014 Director $0 $0 SPORTSMANS CLUB OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INCORPORATED
Sam Gaines 2016 Director $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Mike Macduff 2014 Director $0 $0 SPORTSMANS CLUB OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INCORPORATED
Vaughn Gross 2014 Vice President $0 $0 SPORTSMANS CLUB OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INCORPORATED
Biddle Duke 2016 Director $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Ruby Mcadoo 2016 Trustee $0 $0 HEARTSONG HEALTH IN COMMUNITY
Kathleen Brunelle 2014 Director $0 $0 SPORTSMANS CLUB OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INCORPORATED
James Minetti 2014 President $0 $0 SPORTSMANS CLUB OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INCORPORATED
Catherine Drake 2016 Director $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Ray Aubin 2014 President $0 $0 SPORTSMANS CLUB OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INCORPORATED
Linda Goodman 2014 Secretary $0 $0 SPORTSMANS CLUB OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INCORPORATED
Doren Dolan 2016 Director $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Omer Van Der Horst Jansen 2016 Treasurer & Secretary $0 $0 HEARTSONG HEALTH IN COMMUNITY
Thomas Mehuron 2016 Director $0 $0 MAD RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY FUND
Tonia Karnedy 2016 Director $0 $0 VERY MERRY THEATRE
Meg Herrington 2016 Vice President $0 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT

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.