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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Deborah Valenze 2015 President $0 $0 YELLOW BARN INC
Samual Greenhoe 2015 Trustee $0 $0 YELLOW BARN INC
Daniel Chong 2015 Trustee $0 $0 YELLOW BARN INC
Ian Rosenbaum 2015 Trustee $0 $0 YELLOW BARN INC
Wendy Stick 2015 Trustee $0 $0 YELLOW BARN INC
Bill Stenger 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION INC
Win Smith 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION INC
Matt Buehrer 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION INC
Janelle Germaine 2016 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC
Alison Barges 2016 President Elect $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN VERMONT BOARD OF REALTORS INC
Jim Bee 2015 Past Chairman $0 $0 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Richard Rawlings 2015 Director $0 $0 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Daniel Ingold 2016 Trustee $0 $0 RESCUE INC
Renee Walsh 2015 Past Director $0 $0 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Charles Panasis 2015 Assistant Secretary $0 $0 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Tom Sullivan 2015 Vice Chairman $0 $0 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Alice Bennett 2016 Secretary $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Don Ritchie 2016 Vice Chairma $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Jacob Lavely 2015 Past Director $0 $0 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Fred Ober 2015 Past Director $0 $0 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Darlene Wideawake 2015 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Bradford E Cook 2015 Past Chairman $0 $0 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Sally Garmon 2015 Past Vice-Chairman $0 $0 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Tom Gravelin 2016 Deputy Grand $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Patrick Lowkes 2015 President $0 $0 RUTLAND AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION 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.