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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Cassandra Holloway 2016 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Elena Bertrand 2016 Board Member $0 $0 MEALS ON WHEELS OF LAMOILLE COUNTY INC
Jonathan Biele 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC
Harry Chen 2016 Trustee $0 $0 UNIVERSITY MEDICAL EDUCATION
Jonathan Katz 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC
Dan Osman 2015 Camp Dir (Forme $0 $0 CAMP THORPE INC
Steve Luke 2016 2Nd Vice Comm. $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
James Crook 2016 Trustee $0 $0 UNIVERSITY MEDICAL EDUCATION
Steven Schlussel 2016 Trustee $0 $0 DORSET PLAYERS INC
Holly Hitchcock 2015 Trustee $0 $0 CAMP THORPE INC
Richard Girard 2015 Trustee $0 $0 CAMP THORPE INC
Eric Morgan 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC
Mary Jane Eaton 2015 Trustee $0 $0 CAMP THORPE INC
Brice Palmer 2015 Trustee $0 $0 CAMP THORPE INC
Warren Smith - Renny 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC
Charles Tipper 2016 President $0 $0 NEW MORAN INC
Ernest Miner 2015 Trustee $0 $0 CAMP THORPE INC
Elizabeth Giard 2015 Trustee $0 $0 CAMP THORPE INC
Thomas Rolfs 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC
Jeff Heath 2015 Secretary $0 $0 CAMP THORPE INC
Martha Heath 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 CAMP THORPE INC
Anne-Marie Regan 2016 Secretary $0 $0 BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC
Ray Lamare 2016 Trail Master $0 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY SNO PACKERS INC
Elaine Lolson 2016 Assistant Treasurer $0 $8,908 THE WOODSTOCK FOUNDATION INC
Peter Lynch 2015 Vice President $0 $0 CAMP THORPE 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.