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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Mark Tanny 2015 Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Don Rendall 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
David Middleton 2017 Trustee $0 $0 THE DORSET EQUINE RESCUE INC
Paul W Carroccio 2016 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION
Susan Donaldson James 2016 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Mary B Desranleau 2016 Secretary And Director (As Of 9/20/2016) $0 $0 OLD CRESCENT INSURANCE COMPANY
Sam Coleman 2015 Member At Large $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
John Tansey 2015 Member At Large $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Christian Kuzia 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Kathryn Granai Cpa 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Chelsea Lafayette 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
David S Wolk 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT HIGHER EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL INC
Karen Sheedy Cpa 2015 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Justina Mcconnell Cpa 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Brad Worthen 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Frank Cody Cpa 2015 Chair Elect $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
James B Reynolds Cpa 2015 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Bob Conlon 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Carol Moore 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT HIGHER EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL INC
Eric Broderson 2016 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION
Kevin S Markowski Cpa 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Steve Julian Cpa 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Bill Orleans 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Steven M Doyon Cpa 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Lynn Ellen Schimoler 2015 Director $0 $0 NORDIC SPIRIT SOCCER CLUB 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.