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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lawrence Gates 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WOODFORD SNOBUSTERS INC
Kate Law Hoflich 2016 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTSINC
Robert Wells 2016 Secretary $0 $0 MEMORIAL SPORTS CENTER COMMISSION INC
Cindy Myhre 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 MEMORIAL SPORTS CENTER COMMISSION INC
Donald Keeler 2016 Director $0 $0 MEMORIAL SPORTS CENTER COMMISSION INC
Donald Laackman 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CENTER FOR EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES INC
William Ford 2016 Director $0 $0 MEMORIAL SPORTS CENTER COMMISSION INC
Tom Scanlon 2016 Director $0 $0 MEMORIAL SPORTS CENTER COMMISSION INC
Jeremy Rathbun 2016 Director $0 $0 MEMORIAL SPORTS CENTER COMMISSION INC
Frank Shea 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT FLIGHT ACADEMY INC
Brent Smith 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT FLIGHT ACADEMY INC
John Dwyer 2015 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA FOUNDATION INC
Alan M Sattler 2016 Pres./Ex Officio/Trsr. (Thru 2/16) $0 $76,678 PROMEDICA INDEMNITY INSURANCE CORPORATION
Jeffrey C Kuhn 2016 President, Secretary $0 $143,195 PROMEDICA INDEMNITY INSURANCE CORPORATION
Randall Oostra 2016 Ex Officio; Pres./Trsr. (3/16-10/16) $0 $120,383 PROMEDICA INDEMNITY INSURANCE CORPORATION
Robert W Laclair 2016 Trustee $0 $0 PROMEDICA INDEMNITY INSURANCE CORPORATION
Stephen H Staelin 2016 Ex Officio $0 $0 PROMEDICA INDEMNITY INSURANCE CORPORATION
Michael P Browning 2016 Treasurer $0 $4,420 PROMEDICA INDEMNITY INSURANCE CORPORATION
Martin Dansack 2016 Vp Acctg & Taxation, Phs $0 $287,344 PROMEDICA INDEMNITY INSURANCE CORPORATION
Stephen Sarsfield 2016 Director, Risk Management $0 $213,367 PROMEDICA INDEMNITY INSURANCE CORPORATION
Kathleen S Hanley 2016 Former Officer $0 $38,403 PROMEDICA INDEMNITY INSURANCE CORPORATION
Linda Gotshell 2016 Secretary/Tr $0 $0 ALBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Thomas Smith 2016 Assistant Secretary, Treasurer $0 $0 ADDISON COMMUNITY ATHLETICS FOUNDATION INC
Leona Razanouski 2016 Director $0 $0 WEST RUTLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
Mary Piontek 2016 Director $0 $0 WEST RUTLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION 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.