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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Cathy Rider 2014 Trustee $0 $0 MACLURE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC
Shirlee Nickless 2014 Trustee $0 $0 MACLURE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC
Peter Passaro 2014 President $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION FOUNDATION TRUST
John Mcinerney 2014 Vice President $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION FOUNDATION TRUST
Albert Eckhardt 2014 Secretary $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION FOUNDATION TRUST
George Zutell 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION FOUNDATION TRUST
George Long 2014 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION FOUNDATION TRUST
Beth Sachs 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Susan Coburn 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 SOUTH ROYALTON AREA SENIOR CITIZENS
Wes Hamilton 2014 Secretary $0 $0 MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CENTRAL VERMONT INC
Dave Pellitier 2014 Treasurrer $0 $0 MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CENTRAL VERMONT INC
Laurie Lachance 2016 Director $0 $0 NORTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE INCORPORATED
Sue Bastian 2016 Board Member $0 $0 LONG TRAIL SCHOOL INC
Frank Dike 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CENTER FOR HEALTH AND LEARNING LTD
Julie Stevenson 2014 Parent Director $0 $0 THE CHILD CARE CENTER IN NORWICH INC
Charles Shackleton 2016 Board Member $0 $0 YESTERMORROW INC
Mandy Bean 2014 Parent Director $0 $0 THE CHILD CARE CENTER IN NORWICH INC
Andrew Brydges 2014 Chair $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Kristin Bornholdt-Collins 2014 Parent Director $0 $0 THE CHILD CARE CENTER IN NORWICH INC
Tim Tutt 2014 Vice-Chair $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Julia Rabig 2014 Parent Director $0 $0 THE CHILD CARE CENTER IN NORWICH INC
Patrick Wheeler 2014 Parent Director $0 $0 THE CHILD CARE CENTER IN NORWICH INC
Erin Salcone 2014 Co-President $0 $0 THE CHILD CARE CENTER IN NORWICH INC
Katherine Foster 2016 Chairman $0 $0 NORTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE INCORPORATED
Ben Weiss 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 YESTERMORROW 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.