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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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 Sysko 2016 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD AREA PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION
Citlalli Lopez 2015 Board Member $0 $0 PEOPLE & PLANTS INTERNAIONAL INC
Ann Hill 2016 Worthy Vice-President $0 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Walter Hastings 2017 District Governor $0 $2,760 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Elizabeth Fenwick 2017 Vice-District Governor $0 $1,508 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Brenda L Seitz 2017 Cabinet Treasurer $0 $743 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Carol Greene 2017 Cabinet Secretary $0 $500 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Shaun Gilpin 2017 Member $0 $0 JERI HILL HOUSING CORPORATION
Mohamed Basha 2017 Member $0 $0 JERI HILL HOUSING CORPORATION
Craig Jones 2017 Member $0 $0 JERI HILL HOUSING CORPORATION
Stephanie Taylor 2017 Member $0 $0 JERI HILL HOUSING CORPORATION
Carol Moran-Brown 2017 Member $0 $0 JERI HILL HOUSING CORPORATION
Sister Mary Boiselle 2017 Member $0 $0 JERI HILL HOUSING CORPORATION
Erik Hoekstra 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 JERI HILL HOUSING CORPORATION
Judy Warriner Walke 2017 President $0 $0 JERI HILL HOUSING CORPORATION
Charlie Smith 2017 Secretary $0 $0 JERI HILL HOUSING CORPORATION
Sheila Fazackerley 2016 Worthy Treasurer $0 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Kathy Lacross 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Miguel Alexiades 2015 Co-Director $0 $0 PEOPLE & PLANTS INTERNAIONAL INC
Brian Guara 2017 President $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Morris Putnam 2017 President El $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Henry Diemer 2017 1St Vice Pre $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Thomas Cagney 2017 Tiler $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Michael Gauthier 2017 Esquire $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Sara Gregory 2017 Chaplain $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES 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.