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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lincoln Clark 2015 Director $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Carol Bushey 2015 Director $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Alison Duckworth 2017 Director $0 $0 MAD RIVER PATH ASSOCIATION
Nick Sivret 2016 Director $0 $0 BARRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Matt Considine 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Barbara Rochat 2015 Secretary $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
John Macintyre 2017 President $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY HOUSE INC
Peter Nowlan 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Ben Simpson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Geo Honigford 2013 Wndsr Assoc Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
David Johnston 2016 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT FILM & ARTS CO
Robert Clark 2016 Director $0 $0 NORTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE INCORPORATED
Hon John A Dooley Iii 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
Beth Alden 2016 Board Member $0 $0 LONG TRAIL SCHOOL INC
Lynn Mitchell Md 2015 Director $0 $54,396 ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS INSURANCECOMPANY
Suellen Bottiggi 2014 Cal/S.Esx A Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Frank Carbonneau 2014 Orl/N. Essx Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Ken Fredette 2014 Past President $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Kim Gleason 2014 2Nd Vp $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Celeste Girrell 2014 Cal/S. Essx Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Martin Lalonde 2014 Chit/Gi Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Stuart Weppler 2014 Lam Assoc Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Carol Brigham 2014 Rut Assoc Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Robert Allen 2016 Director $0 $0 NORTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE INCORPORATED
Kayla Jardine 2016 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT FILM & ARTS CO

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.