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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Sandra Bracey 2016 Exalted Rule $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Todd Centybear 2013 Board Member $0 $0 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT INC
Chris Vanderzyden 2013 Director $0 $0 THE BOMA PROJECT INC
Carolyn Smith 2016 President $0 $0 KIDSAFE COLLABORATIVE INC
Eliza Meeker 2016 Board Members $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Margaret Burns 2017 Board Member $0 $0 BETASAB
Howard Verman 2016 Director $0 $0 KIDSAFE COLLABORATIVE INC
Jason Mcfaul 2016 Director $0 $0 KIDSAFE COLLABORATIVE INC
Jeff Morin 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 KIDSAFE COLLABORATIVE INC
Lauren Bowerman 2016 Director $0 $0 KIDSAFE COLLABORATIVE INC
Ron Rose 2016 Director $0 $0 KIDSAFE COLLABORATIVE INC
Shireen Hart 2016 Past President $0 $0 KIDSAFE COLLABORATIVE INC
Sue Victory 2016 Director $0 $0 KIDSAFE COLLABORATIVE INC
Wanda Keosian 2016 Director $0 $0 KIDSAFE COLLABORATIVE INC
Sam Finnefrock 2016 Director $0 $0 KIDSAFE COLLABORATIVE INC
Jonathan Rose 2016 Director $0 $0 KIDSAFE COLLABORATIVE INC
John Moser 2016 Board Member $0 $0 LONG TRAIL SCHOOL INC
Frank Cody Cpa 2016 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Karen Sheedy Cpa 2016 Chair Elect $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Christopher J Plumpton Cpa 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Gwen E Flewelling Cpa 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Susan B Hughes Cpa 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
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

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.