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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Ethan Zorzi 2015 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION EDUCATION CORPORATION
Mark Richardson 2016 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD AREA PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION
Peter Christie 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC
Hal Colston 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC
Judith Ford 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC
Leslie Ward 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC
Bobbe Maynes 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Kevin J Heffernan 2015 Secretary & Director $0 $0 OLD CRESCENT INSURANCE COMPANY
Alan Berolzheimer 2017 President $0 $0 NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Jennifer Ankner-Edelstein 2017 Secretary $0 $0 NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Courtney Dobyns 2017 Vice President $0 $0 NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Carolyn Clinton 2017 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Seth Goodwin 2017 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Heidi Webster 2017 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Mary Cohen 2015 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION EDUCATION CORPORATION
Larry Bayle 2015 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION EDUCATION CORPORATION
Joan M Hagen 2015 Treasurer & Director $0 $41,998 OLD CRESCENT INSURANCE COMPANY
Edward Bove 2015 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION EDUCATION CORPORATION
Andrea Coppola 2015 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION EDUCATION CORPORATION
Timothy Labomard 2017 Trustee $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECT WORKERS 300 HEALTH & WELFARE TR
Larry Michaels 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Sarah Costa 2017 Past Director $0 $9,356 ALDRICH PUBLIC LIBRARY
Loren Polk 2017 Director $0 $0 ALDRICH PUBLIC LIBRARY
Sarah Carner Resigned 2017 Director $0 $0 MILTON FAMILY COMMUNITY CENTER INC
Timothy P Brown 2015 Director $0 $20,048 OLD CRESCENT INSURANCE COMPANY

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.