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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kelly French 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 THE CHILD CARE CENTER IN NORWICH INC
Jane Lemasurier 2014 Secretary $0 $0 THE CHILD CARE CENTER IN NORWICH INC
Al Wilkinson 2014 President $0 $0 HOUSING TRUST OF RUTLAND COUNTY INC
Thaddeus Lorentz 2014 Vice President $0 $0 HOUSING TRUST OF RUTLAND COUNTY INC
Pawz Brown 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 HOUSING TRUST OF RUTLAND COUNTY INC
Terri Edgerton 2014 Secretary $0 $0 HOUSING TRUST OF RUTLAND COUNTY INC
Devin Smith 2016 Director $0 $0 COUNTRY CLUB OF BARRE INC
Gail Graves 2014 Director $0 $0 HOUSING TRUST OF RUTLAND COUNTY INC
Lynne Klamm 2014 Director $0 $0 HOUSING TRUST OF RUTLAND COUNTY INC
Ellen Waldman 2016 Secretary $0 $0 LAMOILLE COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC
John Connell 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 YESTERMORROW INC
Heather Bradley 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 LAMOILLE COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC
Caroline Ballard 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 LAMOILLE COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC
Wanda Atomanuk 2016 Board Member $0 $0 GUILFORD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Jean Audet 2016 Secretary $0 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY FIELD DAYS INC
Adam Paxman 2014 Board Member $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Joan Greene 2016 President $0 $0 LAMOILLE COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC
Polly Ellerbe 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 ONION RIVER EXCHANGE
Darsey Moon 2016 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC
Deborah Bucknam 2014 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT PARENT REPRESENTATION CENTER INC
John Gorton 2014 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT PARENT REPRESENTATION CENTER INC
Brooke Jenkins 2014 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT PARENT REPRESENTATION CENTER INC
Sara Kobylenski 2014 Board Chair $0 $0 VERMONT PARENT REPRESENTATION CENTER INC
Susan Poczobut 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Steven Gordon 2016 Director $0 $0 GATEWAY 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.