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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
George Mckann 2016 Past Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Jake Oudheusden 2014 Trustee $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Elizabeth Schmitt 2014 Trustee $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Rosa Laboy-Hernandez 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Robert Sanders 2016 Former Director / Sr. Policy Dir. $0 $46,125 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Brian Granahan 2016 Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Andrew Belden 2016 Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Cher Langdon 2014 Director $0 $0 SOUL SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC
Jeremy Mcdiarmid 2016 Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Chris Axten 2017 Board Member $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION INC
Sydney N Stokes Jr 2014 Chairman $0 $0 JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
Clarence W Leeds Iii 2014 Vice-Chair & President Emeritus $0 $0 JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
Peter S Hubbard 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
Bahman Batmanghelidj 2014 Director $0 $0 JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
Natalie S Bober 2014 Director $0 $0 JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
Brenda Laclair 2014 Director $0 $0 JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
Hank Lambert 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
David M Abbey Md 2014 Director, Emeritus $0 $0 JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
Marita Johnson 2016 President $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD AREA PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION
Richard M Ketchum 2014 Director, Emeritus $0 $0 JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
David Mccullough 2014 Director, Emeritus $0 $0 JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
Camilla Rockwell 2014 Director, Emerita $0 $0 JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
Roberta F Somach 2014 Director, Emerita $0 $0 JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
Janet Joseph 2016 Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Mary Hurlie 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS 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.