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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Robert Mcgregor Md 2014 Director/Cmo $0 $31,223 CHILD DIMENSIONS INSURANCE COMPANY
Alan Blood 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 PUTNEY CARES INC
Mark Thompson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Art Howard 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC
Steve Wilk 2016 Director $0 $0 CAMPAIGN FOR VERMONT PROSPERITY INC
Linda Wacholder 2016 President $0 $0 CATAMOUNT FILM & ARTS CO
David Warren 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Edward Ladd Butler 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC
Mark Sustic 2014 President $0 $0 YOUNG TRADITION VERMONT INC
Bill Drislane 2014 Director $0 $0 YOUNG TRADITION VERMONT INC
Julia Wayne 2014 Vice President $0 $0 YOUNG TRADITION VERMONT INC
Darren Schibler 2014 Secretary $0 $0 YOUNG TRADITION VERMONT INC
Brian Hsiang 2014 Former Director $0 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Pat Sears 2014 Former Director $0 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Angela Wells 2014 Interim Ex Dir $0 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Bruce Whitney 2016 Secretary $0 $0 PUTNEY CARES INC
Hurley Cavacas 2014 Commander $0 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Louise Papowitz 2016 Director $0 $0 PUTNEY CARES INC
Shannon Lenzini 2015 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Alan Kornberg 2016 Chair $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Becky Rourke 2013 Director $0 $0 MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES SUPPORTING EDUCATION
Thomas Davis 2016 Director $0 $0 BARRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
John Norton 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Julie Forsythe 2016 Vice President $0 $0 PUTNEY CARES INC
Tiffin Mabry 2016 President $0 $0 PUTNEY CARES 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.