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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Don Mayer 2014 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT BUSINESSESS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESRCH & EDCTN FDTN
Matthew Rubin 2014 Secretary/Treas $0 $0 VERMONT BUSINESSESS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESRCH & EDCTN FDTN
Jeffrey Hollander 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BUSINESSESS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESRCH & EDCTN FDTN
Deb Paradee 2014 Officer $0 $0 FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER ASSN INC
Jane Dobrowolski 2014 Officer $0 $0 FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER ASSN INC
Marie Kilbride 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 GRAND ISLE RESCUE INC
Deborah Benson 2014 Chief Of Service $0 $0 GRAND ISLE RESCUE INC
Brandie Cottrell 2014 President $0 $0 HOMELESS PREVENTION CENTER
Tom Hartigan 2014 Secretary $0 $0 HOMELESS PREVENTION CENTER
Jay Kullman 2014 Board Member $0 $0 HOMELESS PREVENTION CENTER
Kim Mayo 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 HOMELESS PREVENTION CENTER
John Cassarino 2014 Vice Preside $0 $0 HOMELESS PREVENTION CENTER
Martha Stanley 2014 Board Member $0 $0 HOMELESS PREVENTION CENTER
Brink Hartman 2014 President $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Troy Williams 2014 Vice President $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
George Zutell 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Ann Scannell 2014 Secretary $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
George Long 2014 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Marie Daly 2014 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Bob Sheehan 2014 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Len Morris 2014 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Gerard Cattie 2014 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Rob Comerford 2014 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Rachel Kurland 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 MORRILL MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Emily Nelms 2014 President $0 $0 SHELBURNE NURSERY SCHOOL

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.