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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Beth Preston 2016 Director - Ems Chief $0 $0 STRAFFORD FIREMAN ASSOCIATION
Jeremiah Linehan 2016 Director - Fire Chief $0 $0 STRAFFORD FIREMAN ASSOCIATION
Annop Pongwat Phd 2016 Director $0 $0 GLOBAL CAMPUSES FOUNDATION
Sean Lewin 2016 Director $0 $0 STRAFFORD FIREMAN ASSOCIATION
Jane Brown 2016 Director $0 $0 STRAFFORD FIREMAN ASSOCIATION
Jennifer Emens-Butler Esq 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
Mark Beams 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER,INC
Kathryn Granai Cpa 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VSCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
J Paul Giuliani 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONTERS FOR HEALTH CARE FREEDOM
Brian Peruch 2016 Fund Raising Chairperson $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD FAMILY CENTER INC
Frank Cody Cpa 2016 Chair $0 $0 VSCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Scott Hesser 2016 President $0 $0 THETFORD AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM INC
Annie S Sarnbiad 2015 Director $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
Melissa Weinstein 2016 Secretary $0 $0 THETFORD AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM INC
Karen Sheedy Cpa 2016 Chair Elect $0 $0 VSCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Tom Telling 2016 President $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB OF MIDDLEBURY VERMONT INC
Judson Hescock 2016 President Elect $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB OF MIDDLEBURY VERMONT INC
Betsy Mccarthy 2016 Vice President $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB OF MIDDLEBURY VERMONT INC
James B Reynolds Cpa 2016 Director $0 $0 VSCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Dave Clark 2016 Director $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB OF MIDDLEBURY VERMONT INC
Dr Mary Barton 2015 Director $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
Logan Price 2016 Director $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB OF MIDDLEBURY VERMONT INC
Tim Hollander 2016 Director $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB OF MIDDLEBURY VERMONT INC
James Preston 2016 Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Jane Korey 2016 Director $0 $0 GLOBAL CAMPUSES FOUNDATION

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.