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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Janet Spitler Term Ended 2017 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Kyla Sternlieb Term Ended 2017 Director $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Dana Wildes 2014 Past Treasurer $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Thomas Candon 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
Keith Martell 2014 Member $0 $0 VERMONT PSYCHIATRIC SURVIVORS INC
Joyce Cameron 2017 Current Pres $0 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Bob Thibault 2017 President Elect $0 $0 VERMONT PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION INC
Joan Cavallo 2017 President $0 $0 VERMONT PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION INC
Nathan Demar 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION INC
Steve Perrin 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION INC
Bill Hammond 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION INC
Penne Tompkins 2014 Vice Pres $0 $0 SOUTH BURLINGTON ROTARY CHARITIES INC
Jesus Mangual 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Ethan Bechtel 2016 Director $0 $0 CYNOSURE INC
Nelli Sargsyan 2015 Director $0 $0 MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC
Gary Edmonds 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 BELVIDERE COMMUNITY CLUB INC
Kristina Brown 2016 Director $0 $0 BELVIDERE COMMUNITY CLUB INC
Dan Lacoss 2016 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR ASSN
Lindsay Carpenter 2017 Trustee $0 $0 HELPING OTHER PEOPLE EVERYDAY INC
Steven Gray 2017 Trustee $0 $0 HELPING OTHER PEOPLE EVERYDAY INC
Mike Flynn 2017 Trustee $0 $0 HELPING OTHER PEOPLE EVERYDAY INC
Jill Broderick 2017 Trustee $0 $0 HELPING OTHER PEOPLE EVERYDAY INC
Michelle Cleaveland 2017 Secretary $0 $0 HELPING OTHER PEOPLE EVERYDAY INC
Sharon B Klinck 2017 Director Emeritus $0 $0 EASTVIEW AT MIDDLEBURY
Margaret Storey Groves 2017 Director $0 $0 EASTVIEW AT MIDDLEBURY

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.