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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jane Arthur 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL INC
Martha Ide 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL INC
Laurel St James-Long 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL INC
Ken Norris 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL INC
Cindy Arsenault 2016 Representati $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Mike Wood 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 RUTLAND AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Donna Stout 2016 Hon Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Nora-Ellen Spaulding 2016 Chairman $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Jan Wright 2016 Co-Chair $0 $0 HOPE WORKS INC
Brian Lachance 2015 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Flora Quillia 2016 Representati $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Sandy George 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Linda Runnion 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Mickie Richardson 2016 Secretary $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Chrystal Arnold 2015 Co-Registrar $0 $0 RUTLAND AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
John Schultz 2016 Hon Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
David Meiselman 2015 Board Chair $0 $0 MOUNT ANTHONY HOUSING CORPORATION
Marny Krause 2015 1St Vc End 12/2015/Director $0 $0 MOUNT ANTHONY HOUSING CORPORATION
Sean Casey 2015 Vice Chair End/Sec Beg 12/2015 $0 $0 MOUNT ANTHONY HOUSING CORPORATION
Janelle Germaine 2016 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC
James Brown 2015 2Nd Vice Chair Beg 9/2016 $0 $0 MOUNT ANTHONY HOUSING CORPORATION
Daniel Ingold 2016 Trustee $0 $0 RESCUE INC
Tommy Harmon 2015 1St Vice Chair Beg 12/2015 $0 $0 MOUNT ANTHONY HOUSING CORPORATION
Alice Bennett 2016 Secretary $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Don Ritchie 2016 Vice Chairma $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS

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.