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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kathy Demars 2017 Vice Chair $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Carl Szlachetka 2017 Chair $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Elaine Nichols 2017 Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
David Yacovone 2017 Past Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Don Sinex 2015 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Bob Bleimeister 2017 Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Ira Marvin 2017 Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Dan Noyes 2017 Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Robert Fulmer 2015 Vice-Chair $0 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Linda Smithers 2015 Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Lynn Crosby 2016 Director $0 $0 KINGS DAUGHTERS HOME INC
David Harlow 2016 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF WINDHAM COUNTY
Mary Lintermann 2015 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Andrew Berley 2016 Chair $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES
Glen A Wright 2015 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Marie Paquin 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES
Brian Smith 2016 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES
Robin Maxwell 2017 Secretary $0 $0 HAITI CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC
William Van Pelt 2017 Director $0 $0 HAITI CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC
Alison Curry 2017 Director $0 $0 HAITI CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC
Barry Hertz 2016 Director - Secretary $0 $0 LYNDON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Carmen Derby 2017 President $0 $0 UNITED WAYS OF VERMONT
Tawnya Kristen 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 UNITED WAYS OF VERMONT
Caprice Hover 2017 Secretary $0 $0 UNITED WAYS OF VERMONT
Jesse Bridges 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 UNITED WAYS OF VERMONT

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.