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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Cinda Morse 2016 Secretary $0 $0 BENNINGTON PROJECT INDEPENDENCE INC
Robert Pope 2015 Trustee $0 $0 BARRE OPERA HOUSE INC
Bill Koch 2015 Secretary $0 $0 BARRE OPERA HOUSE INC
Rep Mary Morrissey 2016 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON PROJECT INDEPENDENCE INC
Karin Clarke 2016 Board Chair $0 $0 DRAGONHEART VERMONT INCORPORATED
Dimitri Garder 2016 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION
Shannon Blais 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 BARRE OPERA HOUSE INC
Judy Stermer 2015 Vice-Chair $0 $0 BARRE OPERA HOUSE INC
Mrs Lillian Seward 2016 Lifetime Member $0 $0 BENNINGTON PROJECT INDEPENDENCE INC
Patty Meriam 2015 Chair $0 $0 BARRE OPERA HOUSE INC
Eugene Reid 2016 Director $0 $0 POORE FAMILY FOUNDATION FOR NORTH COUNTRY CONSERVANCY
Bruce Nelson 2016 Secretary $0 $0 DRAGONHEART VERMONT INCORPORATED
Edward And Chip Evarts 2016 Directors $0 $0 POORE FAMILY FOUNDATION FOR NORTH COUNTRY CONSERVANCY
Owen J Stearns 2015 Secretary $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Noreen Hopkins 2015 Director $0 $0 GREENSBORO COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER
Linda Tillotson 2016 Director $0 $0 POORE FAMILY FOUNDATION FOR NORTH COUNTRY CONSERVANCY
Sharon Morris 2016 Director $0 $0 DRAGONHEART VERMONT INCORPORATED
Douglass Ball 2016 Vice President $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION
Roshan Siva Md 2015 Director Ending 6/2016 $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Sven Karlen 2016 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Maureen Mclaughlin 2015 Chairperson $0 $0 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Jennifer Combs-Wilber 2016 Alternate Di $0 $0 VERMONT HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION INC
Tom Sullivan 2015 Vice Chairman $0 $0 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
David Bruley 2016 Chaplain $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Jeri Wohlberg 2015 Director $0 $0 GREENSBORO COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER

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.