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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Ellen Mcculloch-Lovell 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Gustave Seelig 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
Patricia Burke 2015 Director $0 $0 GREATER FALLS WARMING SHELTER
Christine Bullard 2015 Director $0 $0 GREATER FALLS WARMING SHELTER
Dawn Andrews 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Carol Buchdahl 2015 Director $0 $0 GREATER FALLS WARMING SHELTER
Eric Anderson 2015 Director $0 $0 GREATER FALLS WARMING SHELTER
Garrett Graff 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Hannah Handloff 2016 2016 Vp Housing $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Margaret Kelley 2015 Secretary $0 $0 GREATER FALLS WARMING SHELTER
Shelley Temple 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 GREATER FALLS WARMING SHELTER
Charlie Kireker 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Ann Dibernardo 2015 Vice Preside $0 $0 GREATER FALLS WARMING SHELTER
Louise Luring 2015 President $0 $0 GREATER FALLS WARMING SHELTER
Sheriff William Bohnyak 2017 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT HIGHWAY SAFETY ALLIANCE
Meg Munson 2015 Exec Director $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION
Chris Castano 2015 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION
Anna Noonan 2015 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT PROGRAM FOR QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE INC
Jim Tomlinson 2016 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Kevin Wagner 2016 President $0 $0 HALE MOUNTAIN FISH & GAME CLUB INC
Danielle Banky 2016 2016 Vp Event Planning $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Amy O'Meara Dnp Aprn 2016 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INCORPORATED
Jeffrey Small Cpa 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Jason Minor 2016 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Rob Comerford 2015 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION 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.