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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
David Churchill 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN WALDORF SCHOOL
Bucky Pelsue 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Heather Byer 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN WALDORF SCHOOL
Andrea Kerin 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN WALDORF SCHOOL
Susan Lecours 2016 Town Appointed Member $0 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Audrey Wallis 2016 Secretarty $0 $0 VERMONT-NEW HAMPSHIRE MARKETING GROUP INC
Andrea Melville 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN WALDORF SCHOOL
Tom Powell 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN WALDORF SCHOOL
Sally Wadsworth 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Tom Hyde 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN WALDORF SCHOOL
Nell Coogan 2015 Secretary $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN WALDORF SCHOOL
Jessica Emerson 2016 Gch Representative $0 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Heidi Thibodeau 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT-NEW HAMPSHIRE MARKETING GROUP INC
David Boehm 2016 Trustee $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC
Steve Faust 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN WALDORF SCHOOL
Ruth Vanhouten 2016 Alf Representative $0 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Dawn K Andrews 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Stan Adams 2016 Ilf Representative $0 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Jennie Lutton 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT-NEW HAMPSHIRE MARKETING GROUP INC
Peggy L Hawkins Phd Rn Bc Cne 2015 Nebraska Board Of Nursing $0 $0 VERMONT NURSES IN PARTNERSHIP INC
Jill Lord Rn Ms 2015 Vp Of Patient Care Service $0 $0 VERMONT NURSES IN PARTNERSHIP INC
Ann Albee 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Nathaniel A Waite Rn Bsn 2015 Public Hlth Nurse Vt Dept $0 $0 VERMONT NURSES IN PARTNERSHIP INC
Carol Hodges Rn Msn 2015 Nursing Education Coordinator $0 $0 VERMONT NURSES IN PARTNERSHIP INC
Rob Rowell 2016 Vice Chair/Treasurer $0 $0 VALLEY CARES 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.