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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
George King 2016 4 Year Trust $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Melinda Humphrey 2015 Secretary $0 $0 RUTLAND AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Lu Putnam 2016 Hon Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Brenda Christie 2016 Secretary $0 $0 LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC
Chuck Pace 2016 Board Member $0 $0 LONG TRAIL SCHOOL INC
Rob Mcpherson 2015 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
David Bruley 2016 Chaplain $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Curt Swan 2016 Inner Guard $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Todd Centybear 2013 Board Member $0 $0 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT INC
Thomas Herbst Jr 2016 State Secretary $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Bill Silva 2016 State Treasurer $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Jim Michael 2016 State Advocate $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
John Moser 2016 Board Member $0 $0 LONG TRAIL SCHOOL INC
Robbi Handy Holmes 2016 President $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN VERMONT BOARD OF REALTORS INC
Diane Leardi 2016 Trustee $0 $0 WINDHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
John Wilcox 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 WINDHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
Lisa Fitzgerald 2016 Trustee $0 $0 WINDHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
Susan Kelly 2016 President $0 $0 WINDHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
Greg Lesch 2016 Trustee $0 $0 WINDHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
Ross Kinney 2016 Trustee $0 $0 WINDHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
Stewart Mcdermet 2016 Trustee $0 $0 WINDHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
Larry Parker 2016 Ex Hon Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Stephen Fitch 2017 Trustee Emeriti $0 $0 MEETING HOUSE HILL CEMETERY CO INC C/O J A SCOTT
Kelly Champney Lange 2015 Member $0 $0 VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI & SPORTS
Lynn Lind 2016 Director $0 $0 MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES SUPPORTING EDUCATION

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.