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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kathy Schirling 2014 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Jeffrey C Kuhn 2015 Secretary $0 $112,234 PROMEDICA INDEMNITY INSURANCE CORPORATION
Carolyn Smith 2014 Vice President/Secretary $0 $0 KIDSAFE COLLABORATIVE INC
Chip Hart 2014 Director $0 $0 KIDSAFE COLLABORATIVE INC
Howard Verman 2014 Past President $0 $0 KIDSAFE COLLABORATIVE INC
Jay Fayette 2014 Past President $0 $0 KIDSAFE COLLABORATIVE INC
Scott Campbell 2016 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT FILM & ARTS CO
Barbara Drufovka 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Edith Phyfe Walsh 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Patricia B Wilson 2017 Director $0 $0 JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
Greg Camp 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Isabelle Bradley 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Keri Cole 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Mike Clarke 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Rick Fiske 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Robert Holt 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Roland Moore 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Susan Ford 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Susan Fuller 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Ward Goodenough 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Charlie Wilson 2014 President $0 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Heidi Lang 2014 Vice President $0 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Sarah Sears Term Ended 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC
Sonya Horton 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CHITTENDEN COUNTY MAPLE SUGAR MAKERS ASSOCIATION INC
Paul Palmer 2016 Other Officer $0 $0 CHITTENDEN COUNTY MAPLE SUGAR MAKERS ASSOCIATION 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.