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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Randall Terk 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 MT SNOW REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Amory Hunnewell Julian 2016 Director $0 $0 STARK MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC
Sam Atwood 2015 Secretary $0 $0 MT SNOW REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Trip Morse 2015 Director $0 $0 MT SNOW REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Greg Scott 2016 Director $0 $0 STARK MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC
Jennifer Betit 2015 Director $0 $0 MT SNOW REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Jim Barnes 2015 Director $0 $0 MT SNOW REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
James Elkind 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 STARK MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC
Christine Zilski 2016 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF-ADVOCATES INC
Brook Brittell 2016 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM PRESCHOOL AND CHILDCARE CORP
Michael Kiernan Md 2015 Director $0 $34,257 HELEN PORTER NURSING HOME INC
Stephen Koller Md 2015 Director $0 $0 HELEN PORTER NURSING HOME INC
Steve Terry 2015 Director $0 $0 HELEN PORTER NURSING HOME INC
Rebecca Duncan 2015 Director $0 $0 MT SNOW REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Peter Mertz 2015 Trustee $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
George Gonnella 2016 Secretary $0 $0 STARK MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC
Madeline Dalton 2015 Trustee $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Lisa Cashdan 2015 Trustee $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Deborah Lesure 2016 Vice President $0 $0 STARK MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC
Lieutenant John Flannigan 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT HIGHWAY SAFETY ALLIANCE
Scott Brown 2015 Trustee/Treasurer $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Michael Bettmann 2015 Trustee $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Brandi Myers 2016 President $0 $0 STARK MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC
Jay Benson 2015 Treasurer/Vice Chair $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Cinny Bensen 2015 Vice Chair/Trustee $0 $0 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE

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.