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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Naomi Ross 2017 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND WEST NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC
Jennifer Yakunovich 2017 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND WEST NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC
Kirk Shields 2017 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND WEST NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC
Vivien Allan 2015 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC
Diane Potvin 2017 Vice-Pres. $0 $0 CHITTENDEN HOUSING CORPORATION
Leon Sabourin 2017 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN HOUSING CORPORATION
Peter Ryder 2017 Secretary $0 $0 STONE TRUST INC
Judy Rand 2017 Director $0 $0 STONE TRUST INC
Jerry Coggin 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 STONE TRUST INC
Steven Smith Md 2016 Trustee $0 $96,013 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Maria Padin Md 2016 Dh Representative $0 $197,804 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
William Palmer Md 2016 Trustee $0 $170,950 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Vincent Fusca Iii 2016 Trustee $0 $24,833 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Deanna S Howard 2016 Dh Representative $0 $28,397 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Matthew S Houde 2016 Dh Representative $0 $29,402 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Stephen D Surgenor Md 2016 Dh Representative $0 $65,123 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Alan Keiller 2016 Treasurer/Dh Representative $0 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Gay Landstrom 2016 Interim Ceo (Effective Through 1/17) $0 $39,835 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Gavin Boyles Esq 2015 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION
Patty O'Neill 2016 Treasurer (Effective Through 12/16) $0 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Thomas S Valente Esq 2015 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION
Eli Lesser-Goldsmith 2015 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC
Francesca M Bove Esq 2015 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION
Lauri A Fisher Esq 2015 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION
Lou Hicks 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT STUDIO 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.