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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jenny Barker 2015 Board Member $0 $0 UNITED CHILDRENS SERVICES OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC
Polly Nichol 2016 Member $0 $0 MONROE PLACE CORPORATION
Suzanne Peterson 2016 Director $0 $0 MAD RIVER VALLEY HEALTH CENTER INC
Donald Cota 2016 Secretary $0 $0 GRAND ISLE RESCUE INC
Peter Ashenden 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 COPELAND CENTER FOR WELLNESS AND RECOVERY INCORPORATED
Amy Wright 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Jessica Smith Esq 2015 Board Member $0 $0 UNITED CHILDRENS SERVICES OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC
Nathaniel Marcoux 2015 Board Member $0 $0 UNITED CHILDRENS SERVICES OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC
Erik Hoekstra 2016 Member $0 $0 MONROE PLACE CORPORATION
Denise Goodwin 2015 Sec/Treas $0 $0 UNITED CHILDRENS SERVICES OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC
William Baldwin Sr 2015 President $0 $0 UNITED CHILDRENS SERVICES OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC
Christopher L Davis 2016 Member $0 $0 MONROE PLACE CORPORATION
Maxine Grad 2016 Director $0 $0 MAD RIVER VALLEY HEALTH CENTER INC
Peter Stein 2015 Vice President/President $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Charlie Smith 2016 President $0 $0 MONROE PLACE CORPORATION
Ray Sears 2015 President/Trustee $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Catherine Richmond 2015 Trustee $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Joseph Grant 2016 Director $0 $0 MAD RIVER VALLEY HEALTH CENTER INC
Eileen Blow 2016 Vice-President $0 $0 GRAND ISLE RESCUE INC
Marco Tallini 2015 Vice Preside $0 $0 MT SNOW REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Jill Baker 2015 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Erica Scott 2015 Secretary $0 $0 LAMOILLE HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Mark Faith 2015 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
James Hester 2016 Member $0 $0 MONROE PLACE CORPORATION
Alexis Scott 2016 Secretary $0 $0 OVERLAKE DAY SCHOOL 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.