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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Victor Prussack 2015 Director $0 $0 BURLINGTON CHILDRENS SPACE INC
Beth Saunders 2015 Director $0 $0 BURLINGTON CHILDRENS SPACE INC
Annika Hawkins-Hike 2015 Director $0 $0 BURLINGTON CHILDRENS SPACE INC
Bill Harrington 2015 Director $0 $0 BURLINGTON CHILDRENS SPACE INC
Kim Ianelli 2015 Director $0 $0 BURLINGTON CHILDRENS SPACE INC
Thomas Skinner 2015 Director $0 $0 HIGH FIVE ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC
John Martin 2015 President $0 $0 HIGH FIVE ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC
Thomas Oxholm 2015 Director $0 $0 HIGH FIVE ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC
Nicki Hall 2015 Director $0 $0 HIGH FIVE ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC
Barbara Harris 2015 Director $0 $0 HIGH FIVE ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC
Daniel Davis 2015 Director $0 $0 HIGH FIVE ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC
Glenda Hawley 2015 President $0 $0 DOWNTOWN RUTLAND PARTNERSHIP INC
Eddie Ryan 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 DOWNTOWN RUTLAND PARTNERSHIP INC
John Zawistoski 2015 Secretary $0 $0 DOWNTOWN RUTLAND PARTNERSHIP INC
Shannon Poole 2015 Director $0 $0 DOWNTOWN RUTLAND PARTNERSHIP INC
Michelle Bailey 2015 Director $0 $0 DOWNTOWN RUTLAND PARTNERSHIP INC
Rebecca Buonadonna 2015 Director $0 $0 DOWNTOWN RUTLAND PARTNERSHIP INC
Stephan Montanez 2015 Director $0 $0 DOWNTOWN RUTLAND PARTNERSHIP INC
John Gilman 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Michael Newbold 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Lynn Peterson Md 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Patty O'Neill 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Alan Keiller 2014 Dh Representative $0 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Janet Franz 2015 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT GOVERNORS COUNCIL ON PHYSICAL FITNESS
Tom Clavelle 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT GOVERNORS COUNCIL ON PHYSICAL FITNESS

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.