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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Adam Pesce 2015 Director $0 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Harshad Sanghvi Md 2015 Director $0 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Rep Mary Morrissey 2017 Former Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON PROJECT INDEPENDENCE INC
Lynn Stratton 2017 Former Treasurer $0 $0 BENNINGTON PROJECT INDEPENDENCE INC
Michael Nigro 2017 Former President $0 $0 BENNINGTON PROJECT INDEPENDENCE INC
Melissa Morrison 2017 Former Vice President $0 $0 BENNINGTON PROJECT INDEPENDENCE INC
Archie Budnikas 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 BENNINGTON PROJECT INDEPENDENCE INC
Kathleen Cichanowski 2017 Vice President $0 $0 BENNINGTON PROJECT INDEPENDENCE INC
Linda Putney 2017 President $0 $0 BENNINGTON PROJECT INDEPENDENCE INC
Dr Peggy R Williams 2014 Vice Chair Of The Board $0 $0 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Fran Stoddard 2017 Chair $0 $0 BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC
Todd Lockwood 2017 Past Chair $0 $0 BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC
Doug Griswold 2017 Vice Chair $0 $0 BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC
Michael Metz 2017 Secretary $0 $0 BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC
Dan Harvey 2017 Director $0 $0 BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC
Judy Kelly 2017 Director $0 $0 BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC
Andrew Beyer 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Thelma Stoudt 2017 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE INC
Ryan Green 2014 Director $0 $0 CROSS COUNTRY SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION
Cristine Zern 2016 Director $0 $0 CAPITAL CITY HOUSING FOUNDATION INC
Karen Peterson 2016 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF WINDHAM COUNTY
Eliza Eaton 2015 Director $0 $0 AUXILIARY OF PORTER MEDICAL CENTER,INC
Brett Struwe 2015 Director $0 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Frank Dennis 2015 Chair $0 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Katie Cooper 2017 Secretary $0 $0 ASCUTNEY VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSOCIATION 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.