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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Scott Willard 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC
Heather Jarvis 2014 Vice President $0 $0 HOME SHARE NOW
Jo Jo Toeppner 2014 Chairman $0 $0 CROSS COUNTRY SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION
Austin Weiss 2014 Vice Chairman $0 $0 CROSS COUNTRY SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION
Roger Bromley 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 SILAS L GRIFFITH MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Richard Hodges 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 CROSS COUNTRY SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION
Scotty Mcgee 2014 Director $0 $0 CROSS COUNTRY SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION
Doug Elledge 2014 Director $0 $0 CROSS COUNTRY SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION
Danica Ready 2014 Director $0 $0 CROSS COUNTRY SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION
Rebecca Dayton 2014 Director $0 $0 CROSS COUNTRY SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION
Nancy Colton 2014 Director $0 $0 CROSS COUNTRY SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION
Nate Harvey 2014 Director $0 $0 CROSS COUNTRY SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION
Reese Brown 2014 Director $0 $0 CROSS COUNTRY SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION
Ian Harvey 2014 Director $0 $0 CROSS COUNTRY SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION
Mary Powers 2016 Auditor $0 $0 SILAS L GRIFFITH MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Tom Lewandowski 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHERN VERMONT BASEBALL UMPIRES ASSOCIATION INC
Sara Mckirryer 2015 President $0 $0 VERGENNES AREA RESCUE SQUAD
Hudson Tilford 2014 Director At $0 $0 NORTHERN VERMONT BASEBALL UMPIRES ASSOCIATION INC
Ellen Arnold 2014 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHEAST SLOPES INC
Carl Demrow 2014 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST SLOPES INC
Bob Amos 2014 Secretary $0 $0 CATAMOUNT FILM & ARTS CO
Jim Eldridge 2014 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT FILM & ARTS CO
Emmy Hausman 2014 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT FILM & ARTS CO
John Griffith Jr 2016 Chairman $0 $0 SILAS L GRIFFITH MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Jennifer Millard 2016 Director $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.