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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Denny Frehsee 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
Greg Hessel 2017 President $0 $0 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
Kate Jellema 2017 Member $0 $0 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
Christina Lively 2017 Member $0 $0 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
Susan Mcdormand 2017 Member $0 $0 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
Kim Morell 2017 Secretary $0 $0 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
Ellen Snyder 2017 Member $0 $0 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
Grace B Pazdan Esq 2015 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION
John Newton 2016 Trustee $0 $0 SAINT ALBANS MUSEUM INC
Ron Pitz 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATES FOR TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT INC
Sally Larner 2016 Trustee $0 $0 SAINT ALBANS MUSEUM INC
Gerard Sparacino 2016 Trustee $0 $0 SAINT ALBANS MUSEUM INC
Rita Sparacino 2016 Trustee $0 $0 SAINT ALBANS MUSEUM INC
Ronald Anstey 2016 Secretary $0 $0 SAINT ALBANS MUSEUM INC
Charles Moore 2016 Co-President $0 $0 SAINT ALBANS MUSEUM INC
Donald Mcfeeters 2016 Co-President $0 $0 SAINT ALBANS MUSEUM INC
Laz Scangas 2016 Co-Vice President $0 $0 SAINT ALBANS MUSEUM INC
Kim Smith 2016 Co-Vice President $0 $0 SAINT ALBANS MUSEUM INC
Leah Hamilton 2017 President $0 $0 HINESBURG NURSERY SCHOOL
Jackie Loomis 2017 Vice President $0 $0 HINESBURG NURSERY SCHOOL
Dani Wellman 2017 Co-Secretary $0 $0 HINESBURG NURSERY SCHOOL
Heather Caulfield 2017 Co-Secretary $0 $0 HINESBURG NURSERY SCHOOL
Tomlynn Biondo 2017 Director $0 $0 HINESBURG NURSERY SCHOOL
Karen Bartlett 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 RUTLAND WEST NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC
Jim Leary 2017 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND WEST NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES 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.