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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
John Kassel 2017 Secretary $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CARSHARE
Donnie Coleman 2017 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CARSHARE
Jay Curley 2017 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CARSHARE
Chad Nichols 2017 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CARSHARE
Rob Comerford 2016 Secretary $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Rebecca Hanissian 2017 Vice Chair Effective 2/28/18 $0 $0 HARTFORD COMMUNITY RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER
Brandy Sailers-Dow 2017 Trs. Eff. 2/28/18; V.C. Thr. 2/28/18 $0 $0 HARTFORD COMMUNITY RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER
Patrick Christie 2017 Member $0 $0 HARTFORD COMMUNITY RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER
Diane Rheinhardt 2017 Member $0 $0 HARTFORD COMMUNITY RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER
Nate Hill 2017 Treasurer Through 1/17/18 $0 $0 HARTFORD COMMUNITY RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER
Germain Mopa Njila 2015 Board Secretary $0 $0 ASSOCIATION OF AFRICANS LIVING IN VERMONT
Tim Tierney 2017 First Officer $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Nick Rivers 2017 Second Officer $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Kristn Carlson 2017 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Noel Bonam 2016 Trustee $0 $0 PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAINE ACTION FUND INC
Paul E Wheeler Jr 2017 Vice President $0 $0 SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INCORPORATED
Todd Nebraska 2017 Vice President $0 $0 SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INCORPORATED
Meagan Gallagher 2016 Ceo $0 $21,054 PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAINE ACTION FUND INC
Lauren Phelps 2017 Chairman $0 $0 CREATIVE PRESCHOOL INC
Sulynn Walton 2017 Director $0 $0 CREATIVE PRESCHOOL INC
Anne Macphail 2017 Director $0 $0 CREATIVE PRESCHOOL INC
Jennifer Perry 2017 Director $0 $0 CREATIVE PRESCHOOL INC
Dr Melisse H Pinto 2017 Trustee $0 $0 DR MARTIN & EDITH L HOROWITZ MEMORIAL FUND
Gary Snyder 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING VCIL
Heather Bushey 2016 Cfo $0 $8,761 PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAINE ACTION FUND 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.