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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Robert Wilcox 2015 Cabinet Secretary $0 $489 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Kathleen Gallett 2015 Cabinet Treasurer $0 $489 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Julie Van Der Horst Jansen 2016 President $0 $0 HEARTSONG HEALTH IN COMMUNITY
Michael Newbold 2015 Trustee $0 $0 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Jessica Frazer-Farnham 2015 Trustee $0 $0 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Nida Tansey 2015 Trustee $0 $0 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Gay Landstrommahhc Ceo 2015 Trustee $0 $44,071 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Josh Vanbenthuysen 2016 Director $0 $0 NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC
Lee Crocker 2016 Director $0 $0 COMMUNITY HOUSE INC
James Caffrey 2016 Director $0 $0 MAD RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY FUND
Harold Pyke 2015 Trustee $0 $0 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Mary Bell 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Stephen Miller 2016 Director $0 $0 NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC
Mike Graham 2015 Director $0 $0 LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC
Scott Gonyeau 2015 Director $0 $0 LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC
Gil Mathys 2016 Director $0 $0 NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC
David Blistein 2016 Secretary $0 $0 COMMUNITY HOUSE INC
Mike Tuttle 2015 Director $0 $0 LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC
Chad Neveau 2015 Director $0 $0 LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC
Erin Chastenay 2016 Director $0 $0 NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC
Mike Conger 2015 Director $0 $0 LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC
Rob Mount 2015 Director $0 $0 LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC
Dr Nancy Grossman 2016 Director $0 $0 NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC
Kenneth Eaton 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 COMMUNITY HOUSE INC
Duane Pierson 2016 Director $0 $0 MAD RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY FUND

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.