Vermont Nonprofit Navigator
Explore the organizations and people that power Vermont's $6.8 billion nonprofit economy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heather Vogel | 2014 | Board Member | $0 | $0 | ADVANCE TRANSIT INC |
| Matt Osborn | 2014 | Secretary | $0 | $0 | ADVANCE TRANSIT INC |
| Carmen Oliart | 2015 | Board Member | $0 | $0 | WOMENS LINK WORLDWIDE INC |
| Ernest Pomerleau | 2014 | President | $0 | $0 | TAI CHI INSTITUTE INC |
| Howard Goldberg | 2014 | Director | $0 | $0 | TAI CHI INSTITUTE INC |
| Emanuel Betz | 2014 | Secretary/Tr | $0 | $0 | TAI CHI INSTITUTE INC |
| John Wisener | 2014 | Director | $0 | $0 | TAI CHI INSTITUTE INC |
| Don Young | 2014 | Commander | $0 | $0 | VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT |
| Madelaine Chaffee | 2014 | Senior Vice Commander | $0 | $0 | VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT |
| Ed Brigham | 2014 | Junior Vice Commander | $0 | $0 | VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT |
| Jennifer Callahan | 2014 | Service Officer | $0 | $0 | VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT |
| Lynda Hutchins | 2014 | Secretary | $0 | $0 | ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST |
| Chris Anderson | 2014 | Treasurer | $0 | $0 | ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST |
| David Andrews | 2014 | Director | $0 | $0 | ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST |
| Julie Heffernan | 2014 | Director | $0 | $0 | ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST |
| Bob Flint | 2015 | Director | $0 | $0 | SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CARE SYSTEMS INC |
| Joan Williamson | 2014 | President | $0 | $0 | UPPER VALLEY COMMUNITY BAND |
| Walter Smith | 2014 | Adjutant | $0 | $0 | AMERICAN LEGION |
| Roger Mcmanus | 2013 | Chairman | $0 | $0 | THE PERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE INC |
| Scott Macleod | 2013 | Vice Chairman | $0 | $0 | THE PERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE INC |
| David Morse | 2014 | Second Vice President | $0 | $0 | INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS |
| Alyssa Schuren | 2015 | President/Treasurer | $0 | $0 | TURTLE ISLAND CHILDRENS CENTER INC |
| Paulette Thabault | 2016 | President | $0 | $0 | LUND FAMILY CENTER INC |
| Albert St Pierre | 2015 | Chairperson/Past Vice Chairperson | $0 | $0 | SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CARE SYSTEMS INC |
| Karen Plafker | 2015 | Board Member | $0 | $0 | WOMENS LINK WORLDWIDE 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.
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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.