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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Max Ansbacher 2015 Director $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Michael L Thompson 2016 Director $0 $0 INTERVALE CENTER INC
Katharine Montstream 2016 Director $0 $0 INTERVALE CENTER INC
Richard Ader 2015 Director $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Jed Dousevicz 2015 Director $0 $0 RUN VERMONT INC
Mick Goldsmith 2016 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION
Mike Bursell Left In Fy 2015 Director $0 $0 RUN VERMONT INC
Marylou Scofield 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 KILLINGTON-PICO AREA ASSOC INC
Deborah Saccente 2016 Chaplain $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY
Debra Tiernan 2016 Parliamentar $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY
Carolyn A Beckedorff 2016 Trustee $0 $0 STRATTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL & SKI FOUNDATION INC
Schatzi Brown 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY
Danielle Many 2016 District 1 P $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY
Karen Degreenia 2016 District 2 P $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY
Pat Tivnan 2016 Vice President $0 $0 HIGH HORSES THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM
Kelly Donaldson 2016 District 4 P $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY
Judy Cenate 2016 District 5 P $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY
Rececca Moricette 2016 Districe 1 D $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY
Minner Hobbs 2016 Director $0 $0 INTERVALE CENTER INC
Lynne Benard 2016 District 4 D $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY
Josie Sheldon 2016 District 5 D $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY
Owen S Crihfield 2016 Chair $0 $0 MT ASCUTNEY OUTDOORS INC
Leslie Halperin 2016 Director $0 $0 INTERVALE CENTER INC
David Silverman 2015 President $0 $0 LAMOILLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC
Gary Coffey 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.