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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Cindy Fortunato 2014 Director $0 $0 CYSTIC FIBROSIS LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION
Patrick Dougherty 2014 Director $0 $0 CYSTIC FIBROSIS LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION
Phyllis Downey 2015 Trustee $0 $0 OUR LADY OF EPHESUS HOUSE OF PRAYER
Edmond Rouse 2016 Director $0 $0 BARRE AREA DEVELOPMENT INC
Ken Wiehe 2013 Vice Chariman $0 $0 CYSTIC FIBROSIS LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION
Eric Fleming 2013 Chairman $0 $0 CYSTIC FIBROSIS LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION
Amanda Barna 2013 Secretary $0 $0 CYSTIC FIBROSIS LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION
George Kelly 2013 Director $0 $0 CYSTIC FIBROSIS LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION
Edward Norton 2013 Director $0 $0 CYSTIC FIBROSIS LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION
Thomas Schervish Ii 2013 Director $0 $0 CYSTIC FIBROSIS LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION
Karl Rinker 2013 Board Member $0 $0 GRANITE HILLS CREDIT UNION
Lynn Averill 2013 Board Member $0 $0 GRANITE HILLS CREDIT UNION
Kevin Copeland 2016 Director $0 $0 BARRE AREA DEVELOPMENT INC
Jane Tulloh 2017 President $0 $0 CAMBRIDGE REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER INC
John A Stewart 2013 President $0 $0 AMITY ART FOUNDATION INC
Jacalyn Diesenhouse 2013 Secretary $0 $0 AMITY ART FOUNDATION INC
A Keith Palmer 2013 President $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Carl Colburn 2013 President Elect $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Fred Dusablon 2013 1 St Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
James O'Keefe 2013 2Nd Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
David Snedeker 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 MEMORIAL DRIVE NMTC HOLDINGS INC
Christopher Fraser 2015 Chairman $0 $0 OUR LADY OF EPHESUS HOUSE OF PRAYER
Patrick Luneau 2013 Tiler $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Alan Bourbeau 2013 Esquire $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Daniel Ploof 2013 Chaplain $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES 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.