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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Chris Anderson Sec As Of 72016 2016 Treasurer/ S $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST
Julie Heffernan Until 62016 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST
Gerry J Mckee 2015 Assistant Treasurer $0 $49,343 BROADLINE RISK RETENTION GROUP INC
David Andrews Until 62016 2016 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST
Robert Coffey 2016 Chair $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST
Patti Fisher Md 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES
Stacy Carter 2016 V. President $0 $0 WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC
Rachel Scarpa 2016 Secretary $0 $0 WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC
Madeleine Piat-Landolt 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC
Grace Freeman 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC
Emily Rossier 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC
Kerry Gendron 2017 Chief Financ $0 $0 CREATIVE LIVES INC
Amy Todisco 2016 Board Chair $0 $0 MAD RIVER VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Brad Long 2016 Director $0 $0 MAD RIVER VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
John Martell 2016 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST
Kathleen Mcbrien 2016 Secretary $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY MEALS PROGRAM
Seline H Skoug 2016 Chairperson $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY MEALS PROGRAM
Dorothea Kelly 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY MEALS PROGRAM
Carrie Bombria 2016 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY MEALS PROGRAM
Tina Gallant 2016 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY MEALS PROGRAM
Isla Svoboda 2016 Executive Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY MEALS PROGRAM
Alan Wiegand 2016 Director $0 $0 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC
Carolyn Blitz 2016 Director $0 $0 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC
David Newell 2016 Director $0 $0 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC
John Larkin 2016 Director $0 $0 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION 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.