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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lewis Holmes Md 2016 Director $0 $6,527 HELEN PORTER NURSING HOME INC
James Keyes 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 HELEN PORTER NURSING HOME INC
Bill Townsend 2016 Director $0 $0 HELEN PORTER NURSING HOME INC
Sherry Greifzu 2016 Past Director $0 $0 HELEN PORTER NURSING HOME INC
Michael Kiernan Md 2016 Past Director $0 $33,377 HELEN PORTER NURSING HOME INC
Robert Thorn 2016 Past Director $0 $0 HELEN PORTER NURSING HOME INC
Fred Kniffin Md 2016 Ceo $0 $31,429 HELEN PORTER NURSING HOME INC
Jennifer Bertrand 2016 Cfo $0 $11,403 HELEN PORTER NURSING HOME INC
Dan Spencer 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 COLCHESTER HOCKEY BOOSTERS ASSOC INC
James Daily 2016 Former President/Ceo $0 $0 HELEN PORTER NURSING HOME INC
Lynn Boggs 2016 Former President/Ceo $0 $4,754 HELEN PORTER NURSING HOME INC
Steve Ciampa 2016 Former Cfo $0 $12,370 HELEN PORTER NURSING HOME INC
Cheryl Watson 2016 Secretary/Treas $0 $0 WEST WEATHERSFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Wendy Wright 2016 Trustee $0 $0 JEWISH COMMUNITY OF GREATER STOWE
Steve Berson 2016 Trustee Emeritus $0 $0 JEWISH COMMUNITY OF GREATER STOWE
Marvin Rosenbloom 2016 Trustee $0 $0 JEWISH COMMUNITY OF GREATER STOWE
Steve Lichtenstein 2016 Trustee Emeritus $0 $0 JEWISH COMMUNITY OF GREATER STOWE
Shari Vermeulen 2016 Trustee $0 $0 JEWISH COMMUNITY OF GREATER STOWE
Ronald Feinstein 2016 President $0 $0 JEWISH COMMUNITY OF GREATER STOWE
Lynn Gedanken 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 JEWISH COMMUNITY OF GREATER STOWE
Stephen Majetich 2015 Vp Cfo $0 $40,379 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC
Jane Austin 2015 Director $0 $0 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC
Mark Onorato 2016 Director $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Jonathan Cohen 2015 Director $0 $0 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC
Lois Flanders 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES 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.