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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Casey Hunt 2016 Director $0 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
Ron Lucier 2015 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
Stephen Klein 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
Janice Farrell Day 2016 Director $0 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
Ila Halby 2016 Secretary $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER
Paul Houchens 2015 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
Allison Henry 2015 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
Ruth Hill Klinck 2016 Director $0 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
George Hall 2015 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
Martha Stitelman 2015 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
David Gates 2016 Director $0 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
Bronwen Kent 2016 President $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER
Kevin Hill 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ONE TREE PLANTED INC
Lexi Shear 2015 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
Sheri Larsen 2015 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
John W Frazier 2016 President $0 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
Marge Fish 2015 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
Lee Allen 2015 Secretary $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
Stuart Fraser 2016 Director $0 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
John Page 2015 President $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
Thomas Candon 2015 Vice Preside $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
Louise Lampton 2016 Director $0 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
Jean Haigh 2015 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
Garrett Kephart 2016 Director $0 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
Manuel Apigian 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 MAD RIVER VALLEY HEALTH CENTER 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.