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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Sharon Needham 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 RANDOLPH AREA FOOD SHELF
Chad Schmidt 2015 President $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Ken Tonnissen 2016 Pantry Opera $0 $0 RANDOLPH AREA FOOD SHELF
Kevin D'Arcy 2015 Director $0 $0 SPRUCE PEAK ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC
Margo Howland 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Mr Stephen L Garwood 2016 Treasurer $0 $76,086 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Ms Mary Ellen Moriarty 2016 Vice President $0 $51,866 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Mr John Roskopf 2016 Assistant Treasurer $0 $40,339 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Ronald Redmond 2016 Director $0 $0 HOPE WORKS INC
Erin Desautels Resigned 2016 Director $0 $0 HOPE WORKS INC
Linda Garrett 2016 Skip Program $0 $0 RANDOLPH AREA FOOD SHELF
Trish Dougherty 2016 Vice President $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Caroline Damon 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Ben Esser-Calvi 2016 President $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Heather Goodale 2016 Board Member $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Michele Newton 2016 Board Member $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Fj Bartlett 2016 Board Member $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Jessi Farnsworth Deboer 2016 Board Member $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Kim Peine 2016 Secretary-Treasurer $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN LIBRARY CONSORTIUM
Pj Venti 2015 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
John Leader 2016 Trustee $0 $0 RESCUE INC
Joan Shannon 2013 Vice President $0 $0 BURLINGTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP
Mike Woodfield 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 VERMONT RIVER CONSERVANCY INC
Ron Rose 2016 Director $0 $0 KIDSAFE COLLABORATIVE INC
Carol Bushey 2016 Outreach Ope $0 $0 RANDOLPH AREA FOOD SHELF

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.