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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Key Hayes 2015 Secretary $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT PREGNANCY SERVICES INC
Larry Mackinnon 2016 Trustee $0 $0 LUND FAMILY CENTER INC
Christopher Loso 2016 Trustee $0 $0 LUND FAMILY CENTER INC
Glendon Button 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT HIGHWAY SAFETY ALLIANCE
George Norfleet 2016 Cabinet Treasurer $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Elizabeth Novotny Esq 2015 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION
Laird Covey 2015 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE INC
Peter Miller 2015 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE INC
Emily Lee 2016 Vice President $0 $0 LUND FAMILY CENTER INC
Chris Keyser 2015 Chair $0 $0 RUTLAND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE INC
Robert Bliss 2015 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE INC
Barbara Lande 2016 Trustee $0 $0 LUND FAMILY CENTER INC
Dorie Morgantini 2017 Trustee $0 $0 THE DORSET EQUINE RESCUE INC
Tom Hunt 2015 Chaplin $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION CLUB
Isaac Chavez 2015 Chairman $0 $0 ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Jeanne B Kennedy 2016 Trustee $0 $0 LUND FAMILY CENTER INC
Bob Stannard 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 VERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC
Maurine Gilbert 2016 Trustee $0 $0 LUND FAMILY CENTER INC
Elizabeth Fenwick 2016 2Nd Vice-District Governor $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Robin Perlah 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC
Gayle Ottmann 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 VERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC
Tjdonovan 2016 Trustee $0 $0 LUND FAMILY CENTER INC
Peter Kriff 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC
Elisabeth Gordon 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC
Christopher Curtis 2016 Trustee $0 $0 LUND FAMILY 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.