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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Carol Wilson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MORRILL MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Jean Haigh 2014 President $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
Thomas Candon 2014 Secretary $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
John Page 2014 Vice Preside $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
Ted Albers 2014 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
Lee Allen 2014 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
Miriam Newman 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MORRILL MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Lynda Hutchins 2014 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
Leslie Lever 2015 Director $0 $0 CONNECTICUT RIVER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Doug Mckain 2014 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
Michael Chernick 2014 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
Laurene Sorensen 2014 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
April Tuck 2017 Director $0 $0 CAMBRIDGE REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER INC
Rachel Kurland 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 MORRILL MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Steven Lefebvre 2014 Chairman $0 $0 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Marty Frank 2016 Secretary $0 $0 MORRILL MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Michael Knoras 2015 Secretary $0 $0 CONNECTICUT RIVER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Chad Schmidt 2014 Trustee $0 $0 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Drew Totten 2014 Vice Chairman $0 $0 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Brian Walsh 2014 Trustee $0 $0 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Cindy Binzen 2016 Board Chair $0 $0 MORRILL MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Jerold F Lucey Md 2015 Senior Advisor $0 $0 VERMONT OXFORD NETWORK INC
Theresa M Corsones Esq 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
Lyle Poirier 2016 Director $0 $0 CAREPARTNERS ADULT DAY CENTER INC
Brent Reader 2016 Director $0 $0 CAREPARTNERS ADULT DAY 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.