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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Richard Hoffman 2017 President $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Kim-Zoe Potter 2017 President Elect $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Nicco Bekker 2017 Board Member $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Jennifer Alexander 2016 Director $0 $0 CHILDRENS LITERACY FOUNDATION
Amy Levine 2017 Board Chair $0 $0 HUNGER FREE VERMONT
Darren Allen 2017 Vice Chair/S $0 $0 HUNGER FREE VERMONT
Brian Waxler 2017 Treasurer/Mo $0 $0 HUNGER FREE VERMONT
Jeff Dannies 2017 Director $0 $0 HUNGER FREE VERMONT
Cathy Davis 2017 Director $0 $0 HUNGER FREE VERMONT
Misse Axelrod 2017 Director $0 $0 HUNGER FREE VERMONT
Nicole Rohrig 2017 Director $0 $0 HUNGER FREE VERMONT
Lisa Helmholz-Adams 2017 Director $0 $0 HUNGER FREE VERMONT
Ken White 2017 Director $0 $0 HUNGER FREE VERMONT
Paul Macuga Term Ended 2017 Director $0 $0 HUNGER FREE VERMONT
Tom Torti Term Ended 2017 Director $0 $0 HUNGER FREE VERMONT
Steve Marinelli Term Ended 2017 Director $0 $0 HUNGER FREE VERMONT
Jim Glazier Term Ended 2017 Director $0 $0 HUNGER FREE VERMONT
Sylvia Geiger Term Ended 2017 Director $0 $0 HUNGER FREE VERMONT
Dan Smith 2017 Director $0 $0 CYNOSURE INC
Paul Plunkett 2017 Director $0 $0 CYNOSURE INC
Frank Cioffi 2017 President, S $0 $37,404 CYNOSURE INC
Kristin Brodie 2017 Director $0 $0 BETHANY BIRCHES CAMP INC
Fred Schlabach 2017 Secretary $0 $0 BETHANY BIRCHES CAMP INC
Laura Rice 2016 Director $0 $0 CHILDRENS LITERACY FOUNDATION
Denise Main 2015 Member $0 $0 HILAND HALL SCHOOL

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.