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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Munson Hicks 2017 Trustee $0 $0 THE FRANCES HICKS MEMORIAL FUND INC
Linda Tummino 2017 Trustee $0 $0 THE FRANCES HICKS MEMORIAL FUND INC
Philip Greenleaf 2017 Secretary $0 $0 THE FRANCES HICKS MEMORIAL FUND INC
Becky Auger 2017 Trustee $0 $0 THE FRANCES HICKS MEMORIAL FUND INC
Deborah Zak 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 THE FRANCES HICKS MEMORIAL FUND INC
Rachel Lee Cummings 2017 President, Secretary, Trea $0 $0 HEARTSFIRE FOUNDATION INC
Stephanie Calanthe Victoria 2017 Director $0 $0 HEARTSFIRE FOUNDATION INC
Scott Cummings 2017 Director $0 $0 HEARTSFIRE FOUNDATION INC
Steven Dickens 2017 Director $0 $0 HEARTSFIRE FOUNDATION INC
Brian Bruyns 2017 Vice President $0 $0 LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC
Larry Hawley 2017 Director $0 $0 LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC
Derek Martisus 2017 Director $0 $0 LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC
Patricia Sears 2017 Secretary $0 $0 GILMAN HOUSING TRUST INC
Seleem Choudhury 2017 Vice-President $0 $0 GILMAN HOUSING TRUST INC
Patrick Flood 2017 Interim Chief Executive Officer $0 $0 GILMAN HOUSING TRUST INC
Karen Lane 2016 Vice President $0 $0 BARRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Kevin Sweeney 2016 Member $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY PARENT-CHILD CENTER INC
Marc Miele 2016 Secretary $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY PARENT-CHILD CENTER INC
Will Gormly 2016 President $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY PARENT-CHILD CENTER INC
Caprice Hover 2016 Executive Dir. $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY PARENT-CHILD CENTER INC
Kaitlin Rosenberg 2017 President $0 $0 FIRST STEP PREGNANCY CENTER
Ryan Bartlett 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 FIRST STEP PREGNANCY CENTER
Adam Robles 2017 Vice President $0 $0 FIRST STEP PREGNANCY CENTER
Tamika Piper 2017 Secretary $0 $0 FIRST STEP PREGNANCY CENTER
Brooke Sweeney 2017 Board Member $0 $0 FIRST STEP PREGNANCY CENTER

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.