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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Robert Hyams 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT RIVER CONSERVANCY INC
Mari Cato 2016 Judge Advocate $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Justin Kenney 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT RIVER CONSERVANCY INC
Jason Richardson 2016 Coo $0 $0 GLOBAL CAMPUSES FOUNDATION
Deborah L Riley 2016 Executive Director/Ceo $0 $4,363 VSCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Russell Young 2015 Asst. Secretary $0 $0 CHILD DIMENSIONS INSURANCE COMPANY
Jason Maring 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT RETAIL AND GROCERS ASSOCIATION INC
Dwight Lafountain 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT RETAIL AND GROCERS ASSOCIATION INC
Priscilla Gilbert 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT RIVER CONSERVANCY INC
Alicia Lamancusa 2015 Director/ Vp Finance $0 $42,944 CHILD DIMENSIONS INSURANCE COMPANY
Ryan Mccall 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT RIVER CONSERVANCY INC
Peter Rapelye 2016 Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Jeff Nelson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT RIVER CONSERVANCY INC
David Hajdasz 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT RIVER CONSERVANCY INC
Sadie Fischesser 2016 President $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER INC
Prudence Baird 2016 Secretary $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER INC
Zev Kazati-Morgan 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER INC
Davin Dunn 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER INC
Tonia Wheeler 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Bob Diaco 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT RETAIL AND GROCERS ASSOCIATION INC
Dr Ruth Uphold 2015 Trustee $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
John Dwyer 2015 Trustee (As Of 1/16) $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
James Foster 2015 Trustee (As Of 1/16) $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Samara Bushey 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT RETAIL AND GROCERS ASSOCIATION INC
Mary Link 2015 Director/Vp & General Counsel $0 $28,180 CHILD DIMENSIONS INSURANCE COMPANY

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.