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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Joyce Plumpton 2014 Secretary $0 $0 MAD RIVER VALLEY CRICKET CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FUND
William Smith 2014 Chaplain $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Lisa Lauziere 2015 Vice President $0 $0 VERGENNES AREA RESCUE SQUAD
Jeff Govoni 2014 Member $0 $0 VERMONT COMMONS SCHOOL
Dr Richard Wilson 2014 Director $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Dr John Lesesne 2014 Director-Termed 12/14 $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Mr Stephen L Garwood 2014 Treasurer $0 $63,883 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Ms Mary Ellen Moriarty 2014 Vice President $0 $45,535 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Mr John Roskopf 2014 Assistant Treasurer $0 $51,401 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
William Karstens Phd 2014 Director $0 $0 STEM CHALLENGE INITIATIVE
Dena St Amour 2014 Director $0 $0 STEM CHALLENGE INITIATIVE
Brian Mccarthy 2014 Director $0 $0 STEM CHALLENGE INITIATIVE
Richard Mcvicker 2014 Director $0 $0 STEM CHALLENGE INITIATIVE
Richard Thompson 2014 Director $0 $0 STEM CHALLENGE INITIATIVE
David Thompson 2014 Director $0 $0 STEM CHALLENGE INITIATIVE
Scott Willard 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC
Carol Barbagallo 2015 Director $0 $0 THE MENTOR CONNECTOR
Russell Kulas 2015 Director $0 $0 THE MENTOR CONNECTOR
Monique Braman 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHILDREN S ALLIANCE INC
Steve Chagnon 2014 President $0 $0 BURLINGTON AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Brian Charron 2014 Vp Travel $0 $0 BURLINGTON AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Karen Poulin 2014 Vp House $0 $0 BURLINGTON AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Amy Schalk 2014 Secretary $0 $0 BURLINGTON AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Roger Bromley 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 SILAS L GRIFFITH MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Mary Powers 2016 Auditor $0 $0 SILAS L GRIFFITH MEMORIAL LIBRARY

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.