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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Rowshan Nemazee 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Bill Hoyt 2017 Director $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
John Jacobi 2017 Director $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
David Nichols 2017 Vice President $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Keld Alstrup 2017 Secretary $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Allan Sullivan 2017 Director $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Linda Joy Sullivan 2017 Director $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Sarah Dillard 2017 Director $0 $0 STARK MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC
Cathy Costello 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY
Jon Gailmor 2017 President $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF LAMOILLE COUNTY INC
Doug Boardman 2017 Vice President $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF LAMOILLE COUNTY INC
Melissa Greene 2017 Secretary $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF LAMOILLE COUNTY INC
Marilyn Zophar 2017 Board Member $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF LAMOILLE COUNTY INC
Cajsa Shumacher 2017 Board Member $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF LAMOILLE COUNTY INC
Gail Rushford 2017 Board Member $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF LAMOILLE COUNTY INC
Savannah Brown 2017 Board Member $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF LAMOILLE COUNTY INC
Jim Mcmillan 2017 President $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Jesse Bugbee 2017 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Tony Treanor 2017 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Robert Isner 2016 President $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Bryn Oakleaf 2016 Vice President (Past) $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Betty Rambur Until Nov 2016 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
George Macdonald 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Amy Sadkin 2015 Executive Diretor (Started In 2016) $0 $0 NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY
David Monks 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VILLAGE SCHOOL OF NORTH BENNINGTON

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.