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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Steve Geriak 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MOUNT LAUREL FOUNDATION INC
Eileen Beach 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MOUNT LAUREL FOUNDATION INC
Deborah Kutzko 2017 Director $0 $0 SYNAGOGUE CORPORATION
Diana Carminati 2017 Vice President $0 $0 SYNAGOGUE CORPORATION
Lani Ravin 2017 Secretary $0 $0 SYNAGOGUE CORPORATION
Lila Shapero 2017 President $0 $0 SYNAGOGUE CORPORATION
Phil Scott 2017 President $0 $0 VERMONT INAUGURAL COMMITTEE INC
Robin Barnett 2017 President $0 $0 LAKE STREET HOUSING CORPORATION
Bob Robbins 2017 Vice President $0 $0 LAKE STREET HOUSING CORPORATION
Gillian Nanton 2017 Vice Treasurer $0 $0 LAKE STREET HOUSING CORPORATION
Kathy T Luce 2017 Secretary $0 $0 LAKE STREET HOUSING CORPORATION
Jessie Baker 2017 Director $0 $0 LAKE STREET HOUSING CORPORATION
Kara Marabella 2017 Director $0 $0 LAKE STREET HOUSING CORPORATION
Susan Mcmillan 2017 Chair $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Nina Hurley 2017 Treasurer/Se $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Kathleen Schirling 2017 Past Co-Chai $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Julie Longfellow 2017 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Garrett Levin 2017 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Sarah Judd 2017 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Caroline Biddle Mckenzie 2017 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Terrence Pomerleau Term Ended 2017 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Alice Waxler Term Ended 2017 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Mark Brooks Term Ended 2017 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Sarah Keveson Term Ended 2017 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Lisa Fergerson Burns Term Ended 2017 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY

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.