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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Nare Filipoysan 2016 Trustee (Started 6/2017) $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Leonine Public Affairs Llp 2016 Contract Svcs $0 $0 VERMONT WHOLESALE BEVERAGE ASSOCIATION
Gail Ostrout 2015 Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0 PASSUMPSIC VIEW INC
John Harvey 2016 Director $0 $0 WEST RUTLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
Thomas Nold 2014 Chair $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Nicole Andreson 2014 Past Chair $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Margaret Mcdonnell 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Meredith Ackel 2014 Secretary $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Anthea Dexter-Cooper 2014 Director $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Cindy Elcan 2014 Director $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Grace Lynch 2014 Director $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Marguerite Salengo 2016 Director $0 $0 WEST RUTLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
Jennifer Haggerty 2014 Director $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Joel Desautels 2014 Director $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Mary Lafountain 2014 Director $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Tim Kavanaugh 2014 Director $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Tim Lewis 2014 Director $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Trisha Ingalls 2015 President $0 $0 PASSUMPSIC VIEW INC
Kate Flanagan Mobley 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT AFTERSCHOOL INC
Mac Rood 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 YESTERMORROW INC
Celia Kulig 2016 Director $0 $0 WEST RUTLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
Margaret Harvey 2016 Director $0 $0 WEST RUTLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
Dan Haycook 2015 Vice President $0 $0 PASSUMPSIC VIEW INC
Marie Coombs 2016 Director $0 $0 WEST RUTLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
Patricia Johnson 2016 Treasurer & Co-Secretary $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.