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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Stephen Falbel 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 MONTEVERDI MUSIC SCHOOL INC
Erik Nielsen 2015 Director $0 $0 MONTEVERDI MUSIC SCHOOL INC
Ellen Voigt 2015 President & Treasurer $0 $0 NECI SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
Fran Voigt 2015 Secretary $0 $0 NECI SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
Chris Cady 2015 President $0 $0 FAMILIES FIRST IN SOUTHERN VERMONT INC
Anne Cunningham 2015 Member $0 $0 FAMILIES FIRST IN SOUTHERN VERMONT INC
Celeste Demarsico 2015 Member $0 $0 FAMILIES FIRST IN SOUTHERN VERMONT INC
Patti Pusey 2015 Secretary $0 $0 FAMILIES FIRST IN SOUTHERN VERMONT INC
Jason Richardson 2015 Chief Operating Officer $0 $0 FAMILIES FIRST IN SOUTHERN VERMONT INC
Eileen Mitchell 2015 Co-President $0 $0 NORTH HERO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Tracy Giroux 2015 Co-President $0 $0 NORTH HERO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Marie Giroux 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTH HERO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Cheryl Dattilio 2015 Secretary $0 $0 NORTH HERO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Robert Greenough 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH HERO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Walter Blasberg 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH HERO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Diane Beal 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH HERO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Mary Jo Mccarthy 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH HERO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Geraldine Siegel 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH HERO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
James Kilbride 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH HERO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Dwayne Cormier 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH HERO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Tami Lewis Brown 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC
Dr Letitia Chambers 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC
Cornelius Hogan 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC
Michael Rosenfeld 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC
Katherine Paterson 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS 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.