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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
David J Newell 2015 Director $0 $0 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC
Tom Brassard 2015 Secretary $0 $0 BURLINGTON BUSINESS ASSOCIATION INC
Robert S Ruhl Dmd 2015 Director $0 $0 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC
Alan N Wiegand 2015 Director $0 $0 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC
Ed E Ryan Jr 2016 Program Director $0 $0 LYNDON EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVE RESOURCES NETWORK INC
Kathleen Campbell 2016 Education Director/Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0 LYNDON EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVE RESOURCES NETWORK INC
Kristin Andrade 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 CHILD FIRST ADVOCACY CENTER
Matt Considine 2016 Chair Beg 04/17 $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Lincoln Clark 2016 Vice Chair Beg 04/17 $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Jody Davignon 2016 Treasurer Beg 04/17 $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
August Meyer 2016 Chair End 12/16/Director $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Peter Nowlan 2016 Chair End 04/17/Director $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Clay Westbrook 2016 Director $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Peter Reed 2016 Director $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Steve Conant 2016 Director $0 $0 GENERATOR INC
Tim Halvorson 2015 Director $0 $0 BURLINGTON BUSINESS ASSOCIATION INC
Paul Kendall 2016 Director End 03/17 $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Bradford Atwood 2016 Director Beg 05/17 $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Joan Goldstein 2016 Director Beg 05/17 $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Ben Jickling 2016 Director Beg 05/17 $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Theron Manning 2016 Director Beg 05/17 $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Carolyn Blitz 2015 Director Beginning 8/2016 $0 $0 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC
Kathryn Brooks 2015 Director $0 $0 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC
Shireen Hart 2015 Director $0 $0 BURLINGTON BUSINESS ASSOCIATION INC
John Larkin 2015 Director Beginning 8/2016 $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.