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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Donna Riera 2014 Sunshine Com $0 $0 LYRIC THEATRE COMPANY
Jordyn Wells 2015 Director/Vice President $0 $0 WELLS MOUNTAIN INITIATIVE INC
Doug Vichmann 2014 Facilities C $0 $0 LYRIC THEATRE COMPANY
Leslie Whitaker 2015 Secretary $0 $0 LAMOILLE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC
Brian Meyer 2014 Member $0 $0 LYRIC THEATRE COMPANY
Julianne Nickerson 2014 Member $0 $0 LYRIC THEATRE COMPANY
Karen Noyes 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 LAMOILLE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC
Anne Marvin 2014 Director $0 $0 BROMLEY OUTING CLUB INC
Scott Swinarton 2014 President $0 $0 BROMLEY OUTING CLUB INC
Thomas M Wells 2015 Director/President & Treas $0 $0 WELLS MOUNTAIN INITIATIVE INC
Julie Cook 2014 Director $0 $0 BROMLEY OUTING CLUB INC
Michael Endler 2014 Director $0 $0 BROMLEY OUTING CLUB INC
Randolph Randolph 2014 Director $0 $0 BROMLEY OUTING CLUB INC
Paul Heffernan 2014 Director $0 $0 BROMLEY OUTING CLUB INC
Amethyst Peaslee Until 82016 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WOMENSAFE INC
Jeffrey Nowell 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC
Deborah Kehoe 2014 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC
Jonathan Milne 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC
Laura Simmers 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC
Nancy Waples 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC
David Webster 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC
Gwen Zweber 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC
Barbara Nelson 2014 President $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Karen Marshall 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC
Davis Koier 2015 President $0 $0 LAMOILLE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP 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.