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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Greg Richards 2015 Director $0 $0 MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CENTRAL VERMONT INC
Luis Vivanco 2015 Secretary $0 $0 LOCAL MOTION INC
Joanne Bettis 2016 Esteemed Leading Knight $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Shea Witzberger 2014 Secretary $0 $0 LATCHIS ARTS INC
Erin Allen 2017 President $0 $0 PRESCHOOL AT FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC
Liz Pieroni 2017 Vice President $0 $0 PRESCHOOL AT FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC
Kristin Patten 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 PRESCHOOL AT FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC
Kerri Tracy 2017 Registrar $0 $0 PRESCHOOL AT FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC
Joyce Gallimore 2015 Director $0 $0 LOCAL MOTION INC
Andrea Kaplan 2014 Secretary $0 $0 FRIENDS FOUNDATION FOR MEMS INC
Chuck Karparis 2014 Vice Chairman $0 $0 RENEWABLE ENERGY VERMONT
Renee Kievit-Kylar 2014 Director $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU AND BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
Gina Kelley 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 THE MENTOR CONNECTOR
Kelly Brush Davisson 2017 President $0 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
Charlie Brush 2017 Director $0 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
Lindsay Getz 2017 Director $0 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
Ellen Adams 2017 Director $0 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
Cindi Varga 2015 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN ISLANDERS DEVELOPING ESSENTIAL RESOURCES
John Barrengos 2017 Member At Large "Past" $0 $0 HILLTOP MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
Peter Fayroian 2017 Member At Large "Past" $0 $0 HILLTOP MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
Alexandra Barstow 2017 Member At Large $0 $0 HILLTOP MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
Rochelle Garfinkel 2017 Member At Large "Past" $0 $0 HILLTOP MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
Sarah Grasso 2017 Member At Large "Past" $0 $0 HILLTOP MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
Steve Iams 2017 Board Chair "Past" $0 $0 HILLTOP MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
Martin Humfeldt 2017 Treasurer "Past" $0 $0 HILLTOP MONTESSORI SCHOOL 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.