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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Dana Applebaum 2016 Secretary $0 $0 SPRING HILL SCHOOL INCORPORATED
Jacob Bogre 2016 Board Member $0 $0 OPPORTUNITIES CREDIT UNION
Ann Fielder 2016 Director $0 $0 GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC
Gary Mcquesten 2015 President $0 $0 COUNTRY CLUB OF BARRE INC
Bethany Turnbaugh 2016 Vice President $0 $0 SPRING HILL SCHOOL INCORPORATED
Dianne Lashoones 2015 Program Dire $0 $0 RHYTHM OF THE REIN INC
Sara St Peter 2015 Chair $0 $0 RHYTHM OF THE REIN INC
Madhurri Barefoot Maves 2016 President $0 $0 SPRING HILL SCHOOL INCORPORATED
Glenn Von Bernewitz 2016 Board Member $0 $0 OPPORTUNITIES CREDIT UNION
Mary Cobb 2015 Secretary $0 $0 RHYTHM OF THE REIN INC
Parker Rice 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 STRATTON MOUNTAIN & VALLEY COMMUNITY BENEFIT FOUNDATION
Katie Babic 2016 Director $0 $0 SPRING HILL SCHOOL INCORPORATED
Dick Chase 2015 Director $0 $0 RHYTHM OF THE REIN INC
Rosaire Fortin 2015 Service Offi $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION CLUB NEWPORT-21 INC
Sheila Fazackerley 2016 Co-President $0 $0 PARTNERS IN ADVENTURE INC
Ellen Kane 2016 Chair $0 $0 OPPORTUNITIES CREDIT UNION
Jeanne Deyo 2016 Director $0 $0 GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC
Lou Borie 2016 Trustee $0 $0 RICHMOND LAND TRUST
Sarah Simonds 2015 Director $0 $0 COVER HOME REPAIR INC
Dan Emanuele 2015 Director $0 $0 COVER HOME REPAIR INC
Liz Jordan-Shook 2016 Dir. @ Large $0 $0 PARTNERS IN ADVENTURE INC
Daniel Schneider 2015 Director $0 $0 COVER HOME REPAIR INC
Helen Hong 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 COVER HOME REPAIR INC
Alison Williams 2016 Dir. @ Large $0 $0 PARTNERS IN ADVENTURE INC
Jenny Levy 2015 Chair $0 $0 COVER HOME REPAIR 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.