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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Charise Baker 2016 Secretary $0 $0 UMBRELLA OF ST JOHNSBURY INC
Flo Aeveia Magdalena 2017 Executive Di $0 $0 SOUL SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC
William Ligon 2017 Vice-Preside $0 $0 SOUL SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC
Lauren Liberti 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 SOUL SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC
Susan Quinn 2017 Secretary $0 $0 SOUL SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC
Danielle Nichols 2017 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC
Amy Morel 7115-82615 2015 Board Vice Chair $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Elaine Collins 2017 Vice President $0 $0 LAMOILLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC
Jenny Levy 2017 Chair $0 $0 VITAL COMMUNITIES INC
Peter J Thurber 2017 Vice Chair (Thru 5/31/18) $0 $0 VITAL COMMUNITIES INC
Stan Williams 2017 Treasurer (Thru 5/31/18) $0 $0 VITAL COMMUNITIES INC
Ronald Shaiko 2017 Treasurer (Effect. 6/1/18) $0 $0 VITAL COMMUNITIES INC
Dan Weinstein 2017 Secretary (Thru 5/31/18) $0 $0 VITAL COMMUNITIES INC
Markell Ripps 2017 Secretary (Effect. 6/1/18) $0 $0 VITAL COMMUNITIES INC
Barbara Barry 2017 Member $0 $0 VITAL COMMUNITIES INC
Clif Below 2017 Member (Thru 5/31/18) $0 $0 VITAL COMMUNITIES INC
Catherine Boysen 2017 Non Voting Member (Thru 5/31/18) $0 $0 VITAL COMMUNITIES INC
Rene Bystron 2017 Non Voting Member (Thru 5/31/18) $0 $0 VITAL COMMUNITIES INC
Elyse Crossman 2017 Member (Effect. 6/1/18) $0 $0 VITAL COMMUNITIES INC
Bill Geraghty 2017 Member $0 $0 VITAL COMMUNITIES INC
Barry Mccabe 2017 Member (Thru 5/31/18) $0 $0 VITAL COMMUNITIES INC
Nancy Merrill 2017 Member $0 $0 VITAL COMMUNITIES INC
Rick Mills 2017 Member $0 $0 VITAL COMMUNITIES INC
Ken Wells 2017 Member (Effect. 6/1/18) $0 $0 VITAL COMMUNITIES INC
Sally Wilson 2017 Member (Effect. 6/1/18) $0 $0 VITAL COMMUNITIES 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.