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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Dr Lynn Murrell 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 WINDSOR COUNTY PARTNERS
Peggy Kehew 2017 Trustee $0 $0 WINDSOR COUNTY PARTNERS
Rod Stoll 2016 Trustee $0 $0 HOLSTEIN FOUNDATION INC
Karl Zurn 2017 Director $0 $0 ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Mary Zurn Herrera 2017 Secretary $0 $0 ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Bridget Zurn Garibay 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Jane T Zurn 2017 President $0 $0 ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Reverend Maurice Roy 2017 Director $0 $0 ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Brian Maggiotto 2017 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Matt Wiley 2017 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Michael Mckenna 2017 Vice President $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Matt Harrington 2017 Executive Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Erica Marthage 2016 Secretary $0 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY ASSOCIATION AGAINST CHILD ABUSE
Julie Elmore 2015 Vice-President $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND
Phoebe Barash 2017 Secretary/Interim Treasurer $0 $0 TURNING POINT CENTER OF ADDISONCOUNTY INC
Joe Pearl 2017 Board Member $0 $0 TURNING POINT CENTER OF ADDISONCOUNTY INC
Paul Birchmore 2017 Board Member $0 $0 TURNING POINT CENTER OF ADDISONCOUNTY INC
Carol Story 2017 President $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR GIFTED EDUCATION INC
Elizabeth Raven Walters 2017 Secretary $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR GIFTED EDUCATION INC
Andrea Livermore 2016 Director $0 $0 PARKS AND PLAZAS INC
Pamela Laser 2013 Co-Chair, Secretary, Board Of Directors $0 $0 PLANTING HOPE INC
Jeff Weinstein 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND
Inga Dukitg 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BRISTOL FRIENDS OF THE ARTS INC
Patricia Sears 2017 Secretary $0 $0 PASSUMPSIC VIEW INC
Seleem Choudhury 2017 Vice-President $0 $0 PASSUMPSIC VIEW 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.