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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Robin Barnett 2016 Secretary $0 $0 LAKE STREET HOUSING CORPORATION
Nida Tansey 2015 Trustee $0 $0 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Paul Sisson 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 LAKE STREET HOUSING CORPORATION
Peter Kinder 2015 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Michael Newbold 2015 Trustee $0 $0 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Susan Rutherford 2016 Director $0 $0 VERY MERRY THEATRE
Paul Garstki 2016 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC
Marc Sherman 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC
Alexander Shriver 2014 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO SUNRISE FOUNDATION INC
Todd Murchison 2014 President $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO SUNRISE FOUNDATION INC
Jason Posternak 2014 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO SUNRISE FOUNDATION INC
William Shakespeare 2014 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO SUNRISE FOUNDATION INC
Jill Terrell-Ouazzani 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO SUNRISE FOUNDATION INC
Ali Barry 2014 President Elect $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO SUNRISE FOUNDATION INC
Jen Morse 2014 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO SUNRISE FOUNDATION INC
Kay Van Woert 2014 Vice-Chair $0 $0 VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK
Ellen Zeman 2014 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK
Jeanine Bunzigiye 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK
Mike Loner 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE STREET HOUSING CORPORATION
Kathy T Luce 2016 Vice President $0 $0 LAKE STREET HOUSING CORPORATION
Kathleen Brunelle 2014 Director $0 $0 SPORTSMANS CLUB OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INCORPORATED
Catherine Drake 2016 Director $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Vaughn Gross 2014 Vice President $0 $0 SPORTSMANS CLUB OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INCORPORATED
John C Bennett 2015 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
John Olson 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE STREET HOUSING CORPORATION

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.