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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Susan Coffey 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 WONDER & WISDOM INC
Ace Mcarleton 2016 Board Member $0 $0 YESTERMORROW INC
Christina Scanlon 2016 Corresponding Secretary $0 $0 BARRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Marty Cohn 2016 President $0 $0 GATEWAY FOUNDATION INC
John Mabie 2016 Director $0 $0 GATEWAY FOUNDATION INC
Janet Johnston 2015 President $0 $0 WONDER & WISDOM INC
Lisa Bryan 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN WALDORF SCHOOL
Julie Wahlin 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN WALDORF SCHOOL
Katrina Webster 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN WALDORF SCHOOL
Zoe Newman 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN WALDORF SCHOOL
George Anthes 2016 Secretary $0 $0 GATEWAY FOUNDATION INC
John Meyer 2016 Vice President $0 $0 GATEWAY FOUNDATION INC
Tim Hollander 2014 President $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB OF MIDDLEBURY VERMONT INC
Geoffrey Contrad 2014 President Elect $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB OF MIDDLEBURY VERMONT INC
Naomi Ranz-Schleifer 2015 Director $0 $0 WONDER & WISDOM INC
Bill Reed 2016 Board Member $0 $0 YESTERMORROW INC
Jeffrey Hagstrom 2016 Director $0 $0 GATEWAY FOUNDATION INC
Julie Barry 2014 Board Member $0 $0 QUARRY HILL SCHOOL INC
Kirk Hart 2014 Board Member $0 $0 QUARRY HILL SCHOOL INC
Meg Baker 2014 Board Member $0 $0 QUARRY HILL SCHOOL INC
Anne Friedrichs 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 QUARRY HILL SCHOOL INC
Julie Gregonis 2015 Director $0 $0 WONDER & WISDOM INC
Erin Buckwalter 2014 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY GARDEN NETWORK INC
Phil Lovely 2015 Former Director $0 $0 WONDER & WISDOM INC
Adam Cohen 2016 Board Member $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.