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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Steve Yurasits 2017 Former Board $0 $0 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC
Laurence Clerfeuille 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ALLIANCE-FRANCAISE OF THE LAKECHAMPLAIN REGION
Richard Gliech 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ALLIANCE-FRANCAISE OF THE LAKECHAMPLAIN REGION
Diane Chattman 2016 Director $0 $0 SARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER
Micheline Tremblay 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ALLIANCE-FRANCAISE OF THE LAKECHAMPLAIN REGION
Nannette Lowary 2015 Board Member $0 $0 BENNINGTON COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
Rhea Rhodes 2013 Supervisory Committee $0 $0 MEMBERS 1ST CREDIT UNION
Dennis Barton 2014 Board $0 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK INC
Dr Steven Moore 2016 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Sophia Donforth 2017 President $0 $0 JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM
Hannah Burnett 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM
Katy Wallace 2017 Secretary $0 $0 JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM
Suzy Finnefrock 2017 Director $0 $0 JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM
Kath Laing 2017 Director $0 $0 JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM
Meg Mclaughlin 2017 Director $0 $0 JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM
Lindsay Longe 2017 Director $0 $0 JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM
Andrea Solazzo 2017 Director $0 $0 JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM
Janet Hayden 2016 Director $0 $0 SARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER
Peter Zamore 2017 Director $0 $0 SOUTH HERO LIBRARY FOUNDATION
Kathleen Wilkinson 2015 President $0 $0 BENNINGTON COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
Matthew Garcia 2017 Vice President $0 $0 VALLEY COURT DIVERSION PROGRAM INC
Bob Hayden 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 VALLEY COURT DIVERSION PROGRAM INC
Dan Frazer 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VALLEY COURT DIVERSION PROGRAM INC
Mitchell Stagnone 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VALLEY COURT DIVERSION PROGRAM INC
Elzy Wick 2017 Vice President $0 $0 MUSIC COMPOSITION ONLINE MENTORING PROGRAM 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.