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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
G Bartlett 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER ELKS OF THE USA
Anthony Lazzara 2015 Director $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
Mary Ann Mcdermott 2014 Secretary $0 $0 HARD ACK INC
Tammy Richards 2016 Board Secretary $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
George Schenk 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FOODBANK
Peter Stamm 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FOODBANK
Zel Larivee 2016 President $0 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY SPORTSMANS CLUB I
Jerry Diamantides 2016 Town Of Berl $0 $0 BERLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
Jeremy Hanson 2016 Town Of Berl $0 $0 BERLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
Robert Surridge 2015 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
Bruce Corrette 2016 Director $0 $0 LYNDON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Larry Stewart 2015 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
Jacqueline Ward 2014 Secretary $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN ISLANDERS DEVELOPING ESSENTIAL RESOURCES
Alex Mcguire 2015 President $0 $0 EVERGREEN PRE-SCHOOL INC
Stephen Feltus 2016 Director $0 $0 LYNDON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Beth Tarallo 2015 Secretary $0 $0 EVERGREEN PRE-SCHOOL INC
M Evarts 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER ELKS OF THE USA
Emily Micknak 2015 Secretary $0 $0 DRIFTDUSTERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC
Lorraine Matteis 2014 Director/Fundraising Personnel $0 $0 DARLING INN SENIOR MEAL SITE INC
George Scotten 2014 Secretary/Director $0 $0 DARLING INN SENIOR MEAL SITE INC
Bob Daniels 2014 Director/Nominations $0 $0 DARLING INN SENIOR MEAL SITE INC
Betty Blake 2014 Director/Fundraising $0 $0 DARLING INN SENIOR MEAL SITE INC
Richard Aston 2014 Director/Finance $0 $0 DARLING INN SENIOR MEAL SITE INC
Jeanne Pratt 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 BERLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
Seth Duchesneau 2015 Co-Chair $0 $0 MILTON COMMUNITY YOUTH COALITION 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.