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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Stephan Morse 2015 President $0 $0 CARLOS G OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
Allan Shirks 2015 Trustee $0 $0 CARLOS G OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
Michel Consejo 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHWEST P E G TV INCORPORATED
Ralph Hathaway 2013 Secretary $0 $0 CAMP THORPE INC
Richard Giard 2013 Trustee $0 $0 CAMP THORPE INC
Brett Peltzer 2013 Trustee $0 $0 CAMP THORPE INC
Cheryl Sanctuary 2015 Trustee $0 $0 CARLOS G OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
Tom Stearns 2014 Director $0 $0 THE CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY
Annie Gaillard 2014 Director $0 $0 THE CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY
Paul Costello 2014 Secretary $0 $0 THE CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY
Marilyn Grunewald 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHWEST P E G TV INCORPORATED
Tom White 2016 Liaison $0 $0 ALDRICH PUBLIC LIBRARY
John Nopper 2015 Trustee $0 $0 CARLOS G OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
James Foster Jr 2014 President $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY FAIR AND FIELD DAYS INC
Edward Druke 2015 Trustee (Eff. 11/2015) $0 $0 CARLOS G OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
Kathy Nisun 2014 Secretary $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY FAIR AND FIELD DAYS INC
Brenda Deering 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY FAIR AND FIELD DAYS INC
Diane Norris 2014 Vice President $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY FAIR AND FIELD DAYS INC
Kenneth Button 2014 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY FAIR AND FIELD DAYS INC
Gilbert Goodyear 2014 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY FAIR AND FIELD DAYS INC
Kevin Donovan Former Mahhc Ceo 2015 Trustee $0 $59,784 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Ryan Percy 2016 Director $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Susan Matteson 2015 Chair $0 $0 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Richard Tatro 2015 Vice President $0 $0 NORTHWEST P E G TV INCORPORATED
Martha Dale 2015 Trustee $0 $0 CARLOS G OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER 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.