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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Giulia Eliason 2016 Secretary $0 $0 HELEN DAY ART CENTER INC
Remy Joseph 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 HELEN DAY ART CENTER INC
Ellisa Doiron 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 HELEN DAY ART CENTER INC
Bruce Berryman 2016 President $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
Bill Kilpatrick 2016 Vice President $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
Paul Denton 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
Martha Peck 2016 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
Kathy Austin 2016 Director $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
Stephen Rauh 2016 Member $0 $0 AREA RESOURCE FOR INDIVIDUALIZED SERVICES INC
Jean Mcdermott 2016 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE OPERA HOUSE AT ENOSBURG FALLS VT
Val Bonk 2016 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE OPERA HOUSE AT ENOSBURG FALLS VT
Daniel A Burack 2015 Director $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Timothy Ross 2016 Board Member $0 $0 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
Carol Freeman 2016 Chairperson $0 $0 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
Allan Gurney 2016 Board Member $0 $0 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
Amber Downing 2016 Board Member $0 $0 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
Monique Priestly 2016 Secretary $0 $0 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
William Campbell 2016 Vice-Chairperson $0 $0 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
Jane Goldstein 2016 Chair $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Gabbie Black 2016 Secretary $0 $0 HIGH HORSES THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM
Mike Andreotta 2016 Trustee $0 $0 RESCUE INC
Sarah Jo Willey 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE OPERA HOUSE AT ENOSBURG FALLS VT
Lorraine Jenne 2016 Co-Chair $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE OPERA HOUSE AT ENOSBURG FALLS VT
Lissa Stark 2016 Member $0 $0 HILAND HALL SCHOOL
Margaret Leddy 2016 Director $0 $0 INTERVALE 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.