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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Matlak Mayforth 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BRISTOL FRIENDS OF THE ARTS INC
Basha Miles 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BRISTOL FRIENDS OF THE ARTS INC
Amelia Darrow 2016 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Cedric Priebe Iii Md 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT OXFORD NETWORK INC
Diane Paulsell 2017 President $0 $0 CRISTOSAL INC
Glen Mitchell 2017 Secretary $0 $0 CRISTOSAL INC
Douglas Mouncey 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 CRISTOSAL INC
Rev Gladstone Adams 2017 Director $0 $0 CRISTOSAL INC
Audrey Denney 2017 Director $0 $0 CRISTOSAL INC
Rev Thomas Ely 2017 Director $0 $0 CRISTOSAL INC
Beth Hershenhart 2017 Director $0 $0 CRISTOSAL INC
Rebecca Livengood 2017 Director $0 $0 CRISTOSAL INC
Scott Pentzer 2017 Director $0 $0 CRISTOSAL INC
Rev Greg Rickel 2017 Director $0 $0 CRISTOSAL INC
Gail Wheeler Rolfe 2017 Director $0 $0 CRISTOSAL INC
Elmer Romero 2017 Director $0 $0 CRISTOSAL INC
Kathleen Veit 2017 Director $0 $0 CRISTOSAL INC
Rev Amy Denney Zuniga 2017 Director $0 $0 CRISTOSAL INC
Barbarina Heyerdahl 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND
Ebony Nyoni 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA
Ashley Michelle Fowler 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA
Jonny Finity 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA
Janine Fleri 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA
Ellen Selkowitz 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ELMHILL INC
Matthew Cropp 2017 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA

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.