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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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 Wilkinson 2016 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION
Patricia Fay 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 SOUTHERN VERMONT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC
Brenda Metzler 2015 Director $0 $0 BETHANY BIRCHES CAMP INC
Matthew Maxham 2015 Secretary $0 $0 BETHANY BIRCHES CAMP INC
Timothy P Brown 2016 Director $0 $22,931 OLD CRESCENT INSURANCE COMPANY
Scott Hepler 2015 Director $0 $0 BETHANY BIRCHES CAMP INC
Stacy Selbo 2015 Director $0 $0 BETHANY BIRCHES CAMP INC
David Rees Evans 2016 President $0 $0 VERMONT HIGHER EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL INC
Laurie Metcalfe 2016 Executive Di $0 $0 NORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL INC
Phil Lapp 2015 President $0 $0 BETHANY BIRCHES CAMP INC
Kevin Pearce 2015 Officer $0 $0 LOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION INC
Wendy Morse 2016 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION
June Heston 2015 Director $0 $0 LOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION INC
Donald Steinberg 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT HIGHER EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL INC
Kathryn Tilton 2016 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Meridith Kenyon 2016 Director $0 $0 SOUTHERN VERMONT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC
Katharine Golding 2016 Director $0 $0 SOUTHERN VERMONT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC
Markes Wilson 2016 Director $0 $0 TWIN STATE CHRISTIAN COUNSELING INC
Clay Adams 2015 Director $0 $0 LOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION INC
Geoffrey Vitt 2015 Director $0 $0 LOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION INC
Yves Bradley 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Pia Pearce 2015 Officer And Director $0 $0 LOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION INC
Will Dodge 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
John J Neuhauser 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT HIGHER EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL INC
Mark Gunkel 2015 Director $0 $0 EARTHWALK VERMONT

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.