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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
John Bloch 2015 President $0 $0 ONION RIVER COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA INC
Michael Abadi 2015 Board Member $0 $0 ONION RIVER COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA INC
Abbott Stark 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
Peter Cole 2016 Board Member $0 $0 COMMON ROOTS INC
Jacqueline Simmons 2016 Director $0 $108,355 OLD CRESCENT INSURANCE COMPANY
Mary Foster 2016 Secretary $0 $0 THE CHAMPLAIN ADAPTIVE MOUNTED PROGRAM
William Doyle 2015 Board Member $0 $0 ONION RIVER COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA INC
Cathleen Stadecker 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
Christopher Hacket 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES
Virginia Roth 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
Eric Ayers 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 COMMON ROOTS INC
Janet Wilson 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES
Diane Bazin 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES
Robin Rednor-Veghte 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
William S Abbott 2015 President $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES
Lyn Lauffer 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
Carol Mcquillen 2016 President $0 $0 COMMON ROOTS INC
Sally Duston 2016 Vice President $0 $0 THETFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Bob Guest 2015 Director $0 $0 COVERED BRIDGE THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES INC
Liisa Kissel 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
Steve Benett 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 COVERED BRIDGE THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES INC
Betty Courchaine 2016 Board Member $0 $0 MEALS ON WHEELS OF LAMOILLE COUNTY INC
Robert Kenny 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
William Bugg 2016 President $0 $0 THETFORD LIBRARY FEDERATION INC
Brian Harwood 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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.