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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Owen Stearns 2014 Trustee $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Arthur Crowley 2014 Trustee $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Sarwar Kashmeri 2014 Trustee $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Alice Nitka 2014 Trustee $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Fred Wainwright 2014 Trustee $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Martin Scanlon 2016 Recording Secretary $0 $0 BARRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Mark E Kuchefski 2014 Former Director $0 $33,619 OLD CRESCENT INSURANCE COMPANY
James Dodge Sr 2014 President $0 $0 HARVEY HOUSE LTD
Leonine Public Affairs Llp 2016 Contract Svcs $0 $0 VERMONT WHOLESALE BEVERAGE ASSOCIATION
Anne Sewall 2014 Secretary $0 $0 HELP-KIDS-INDIA INC
Gail Ostrout 2015 Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0 PASSUMPSIC VIEW INC
Kathleen O'Reilly 2014 Trustee $0 $0 TURNING POINT CLUB OF BENNINGTON
John Harvey 2016 Director $0 $0 WEST RUTLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
Marguerite Salengo 2016 Director $0 $0 WEST RUTLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
Eric Silman 2014 Director $0 $0 CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC
Michael Murray 2014 Director $0 $0 CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC
Colette Page 2014 Director $0 $0 CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC
Sarah Taylor 2014 President $0 $0 HARTLAND COOPERATIVE NURSERY SCHOOL
Karen Cote 2014 Vice-President $0 $0 HARTLAND COOPERATIVE NURSERY SCHOOL
Lori Kraemer 2014 Secretary $0 $0 HARTLAND COOPERATIVE NURSERY SCHOOL
Trisha Ingalls 2015 President $0 $0 PASSUMPSIC VIEW INC
Jim Reardon 2015 Secretary $0 $0 PROJECT HARMONY INC
Philip R Smith 2015 Chair $0 $0 PROJECT HARMONY INC
Mac Rood 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 YESTERMORROW INC
Celia Kulig 2016 Director $0 $0 WEST RUTLAND HIGH SCHOOL 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.