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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lorrane Wenta 2016 Director $0 $0 WEST RUTLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
Sharon Crout 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HOMELESS PREVENTION CENTER
Robert Stein 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT MARBLE MUSEUM INC
Larry Wall 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM HUMAN SERVICES INC
Michael Abadi 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ONION RIVER COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA INC
Henry Pereira 2016 Secretary $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTSINC
Martha Stanley 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HOMELESS PREVENTION CENTER
Jennifer Dence 2014 Secretary $0 $0 VERDMONT OUTING CLUB
John Dovitski 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WOODFORD SNOBUSTERS INC
John Cassarino 2015 Vice Preside $0 $0 HOMELESS PREVENTION CENTER
Ben Bannerman 2014 Board Treasurer $0 $0 ASSOCIATION OF AFRICANS LIVING IN VERMONT
Victor Bordman 2014 Vice Treasurer $0 $0 ASSOCIATION OF AFRICANS LIVING IN VERMONT
Lucien St Onge 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM HUMAN SERVICES INC
Kim Mayo 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 HOMELESS PREVENTION CENTER
Nora Wilson 2017 Secretary $0 $0 JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
Rick Isabelle 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 LARAWAY YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES
Anne Smith 2014 Member $0 $0 LARAWAY YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES
Willie Pelton 2015 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CARE SYSTEMS INC
Jay Kullman 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HOMELESS PREVENTION CENTER
Tina Norton 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM HUMAN SERVICES INC
Lindsey Anderson 2014 Member $0 $0 HILAND HALL SCHOOL
Susanne Bosek 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTSINC
Richard Forbes 2016 Director $0 $0 GLOBAL CAMPUSES FOUNDATION
Shirlee Nickless 2014 Trustee $0 $0 MACLURE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC
Wes Hamilton 2014 Secretary $0 $0 MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CENTRAL VERMONT 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.