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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Hillary Orsini 2017 Member At La $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Joey Bergstein 2017 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Josh Burleson 2017 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Cate Maclachlan 2017 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Jeetan Khadka Resigned 2017 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Carlton Dunn Resigned 2017 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Derek Williams 2016 Director $0 $0 HARDWICK EMERGENCY RESCUE SQUAD INC
Coral Stone 2017 Member $0 $0 CHILD FIRST ADVOCACY CENTER
Martha Zipf 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 CHILD FIRST ADVOCACY CENTER
Rick Sullivan 2016 Director $0 $0 HARDWICK EMERGENCY RESCUE SQUAD INC
Joe Perras 2017 President And Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS NETWORK
Jeffrey Tieman 2017 Vice Chair & Secretary $0 $38,680 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS NETWORK
Chris Donnelly 2017 Director $0 $0 SHELBURNE FOOD SHELF INC
Alex Bornstein 2017 Director $0 $0 SHELBURNE FOOD SHELF INC
Amy Nickerson 2017 Director $0 $0 SHELBURNE FOOD SHELF INC
Allan Merritt 2017 Director $0 $0 SHELBURNE FOOD SHELF INC
Chiuho Duval 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Dale Perron 2017 President $0 $0 COVENTRY TOWN FOUNDATION INC
Jean Maxwell 2017 Secretary $0 $0 COVENTRY TOWN FOUNDATION INC
Don Whipple 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 COVENTRY TOWN FOUNDATION INC
Jana Lovejoy 2017 Trustee $0 $0 COVENTRY TOWN FOUNDATION INC
Leo Piette 2017 Trustee $0 $0 COVENTRY TOWN FOUNDATION INC
John B Carpenter 2017 Director $0 $0 STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD
Donna G Carpenter 2017 Director $0 $0 STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD
Brian Huber 2017 Director $0 $0 STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD

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.