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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Savi Van Sluytman 2013 Sec./Treasur $0 $0 COPLEY HOUSE INC
Susan Kelley-Harkey 2016 Board Member $0 $0 GRASS ROOTS ART AND COMMUNITY EFFORTS
Stephan Cantor 2016 Board Member $0 $0 GRASS ROOTS ART AND COMMUNITY EFFORTS
Frank Cody Cpa 2016 Chair $0 $0 VSCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Annie S Sarnbiad 2015 Director $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
Karen Sheedy Cpa 2016 Chair Elect $0 $0 VSCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
James B Reynolds Cpa 2016 Director $0 $0 VSCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Dr Mary Barton 2015 Director $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
James Preston 2016 Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Jane Korey 2016 Director $0 $0 GLOBAL CAMPUSES FOUNDATION
Tom Pastore 2015 Director $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
S Mark Sciarrotta Esq 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
Judy Cookson 2016 2Nd Vice-President $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Josh Slocum 2016 Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Moe Fortier 2016 Director $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Tricia Phillips 2015 Director $0 $0 CSB YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
John Servin 2015 Director $0 $0 CSB YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Richard Harlow 2015 1St Vice Comman $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Cindy Seligmann 2016 Board Vp $0 $0 NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL
Nancy Weaver Jones 2015 Director $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
John Evans 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COVERTS
Bradford Prescott 2016 Director $0 $0 HIGH HORSES THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM
Ron Waggoner 2015 Service Officer $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Alan Wing 2015 Vice Chair - Board $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER,INC
Gary Gillespie 2015 Vice Chair Finance $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER,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.