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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Brandi Thomas 2017 Board Member $0 $0 SEVENTH GENERATION FOUNDATION INC
Hanneke Willenborg 2017 Board Member $0 $0 SEVENTH GENERATION FOUNDATION INC
L Selina Peyser 2017 Treaspres $0 $0 FREDERICK M PEYSER JR FOUNDATION
Selina Lamb 2017 Vpsec $0 $0 FREDERICK M PEYSER JR FOUNDATION
Charles Baker 2017 2Nd Vice Chair & Treasurer $0 $0 OPPORTUNITIES CREDIT UNION
Cheryl Fatnassi 2017 President $0 $10,314 OPPORTUNITIES CREDIT UNION
Ellen Kane 2017 Board Chair $0 $0 OPPORTUNITIES CREDIT UNION
Jacoub Bogre 2017 Board Member $0 $0 OPPORTUNITIES CREDIT UNION
Michael Tutle 2017 Board Member $0 $0 OPPORTUNITIES CREDIT UNION
Mary Pat Palmer 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT CHILDRENS TRUST FOUNDATION
Peter Zamore Until 1215 2015 Director $0 $0 LOCAL MOTION INC
Sarah Semler 2017 Director $0 $0 GRANITE CITY HOUSING INC
Bill Laferriere 2017 Director $0 $0 GRANITE CITY HOUSING INC
Bruce Parmenter 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT CHILDRENS TRUST FOUNDATION
Nicole Killian 2017 President $0 $0 RICHMOND RESCUE INCORPORATED
Matthew Noonan 2017 Vice-President $0 $0 RICHMOND RESCUE INCORPORATED
Christopher Bergen 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 RICHMOND RESCUE INCORPORATED
Bethany Brouard 2017 Secretary $0 $0 RICHMOND RESCUE INCORPORATED
Jillian Leikauskas 2017 Director $0 $0 RICHMOND RESCUE INCORPORATED
Richard Bernstein 2017 Director $0 $0 RICHMOND RESCUE INCORPORATED
Kristin Brooks 2017 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Ryan Jennings 2017 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Gina Pattison 2017 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Michele Coursen 2017 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Lee Bradford 2017 Director $0 $0 HIGH FIVE ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER 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.