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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Ken Russell 2015 Board Member $0 $0 ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Kate Owen 2016 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD LIBRARY FEDERATION INC
Susan Abbott 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Brynn Hare 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Walt Pyer 2015 Historian $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION CLUB
Kittybelle Hosford 2015 Trustee $0 $0 TURTLE ISLAND CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Alexandra Maclean 2015 Trustee $0 $0 TURTLE ISLAND CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Heidi Viens 2016 Trustee $0 $0 LUND FAMILY CENTER INC
Andropov Boyce 2016 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD LIBRARY FEDERATION INC
Gretchen Dunn 2015 Trustee $0 $0 TURTLE ISLAND CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Alyssa Schuren 2015 President/Treasurer $0 $0 TURTLE ISLAND CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Paulette Thabault 2016 President $0 $0 LUND FAMILY CENTER INC
Jennifer Duggan 2015 Secretary $0 $0 TURTLE ISLAND CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Margaret Baird 2015 Trustee $0 $0 TURTLE ISLAND CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Cyndee Sturtevant 2016 Trustee $0 $0 LUND FAMILY CENTER INC
Megan Odell 2016 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD LIBRARY FEDERATION INC
Robin Grace 2016 Chair $0 $0 STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC
Kate Coss 2016 Trustee $0 $0 DORSET PLAYERS INC
Drew Pate Md 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Carlen Finn 2015 Trustee $0 $0 TURTLE ISLAND CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Eileen Simollardes 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 LUND FAMILY CENTER INC
Angie Merwin 2016 President $0 $0 DORSET PLAYERS INC
Peter Blodgett 2016 Acting Clerk $0 $0 THETFORD LIBRARY FEDERATION INC
James Reardon 2016 Trustee $0 $0 LUND FAMILY CENTER INC
Katherine Sims 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAND TRUST 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.