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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Keith Clark 2014 Past President $0 $0 VERMONT SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC C/O SHERRIFF GARY FORREST
Tom Emery 2014 Secretary $0 $0 BETHANY BIRCHES CAMP INC
Scott Hepler 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 BETHANY BIRCHES CAMP INC
Matthew Maxham 2014 Director $0 $0 BETHANY BIRCHES CAMP INC
Jeff Rosenberger 2014 Director $0 $0 BETHANY BIRCHES CAMP INC
Carina Driscoll 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE STREET HOUSING CORPORATION
Alan Boye 2014 President $0 $0 PASSUMPSIC VALLEY LAND TRUST
Kellie Merrell 2014 Vice-Preside $0 $0 PASSUMPSIC VALLEY LAND TRUST
Patricia Swartz 2014 Secretary $0 $0 PASSUMPSIC VALLEY LAND TRUST
Patrick Farley 2016 Exalted Ruler $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Jay Abramson 2014 Board Member $0 $0 PASSUMPSIC VALLEY LAND TRUST
Michael Powers 2015 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Betty Vanzandt 2014 Vice Preside $0 $0 EAST DOVER VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
Douglas Watson 2015 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Denise Wheeler 2016 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC
Lindsay Deslauriers 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC
Rachel Doty 2014 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC
Veronica Johnson 2014 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC
Joseph Madison 2014 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC
Tim Stetson 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHWEST P E G TV INCORPORATED
Virginia Holiman 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHWEST P E G TV INCORPORATED
John Gundy 2014 Board Member $0 $0 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
Scott Bassage 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC
J Walter Corcoran 2015 Secretary $0 $0 CARLOS G OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
Joseph Halko 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHWEST P E G TV INCORPORATED

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.