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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Dr Stacey Mandelbaum 2015 Director $0 $0 GLENS FALLS FOUNDATION
Mr Mark Behan 2015 Vice-Chairman $0 $0 GLENS FALLS FOUNDATION
Ron Barnes 2015 Director $0 $0 INTERNET COALITION INC
Tammy Cota 2015 Exec Dir./Secr $0 $0 INTERNET COALITION INC
Ann Brazier 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 INTERNET COALITION INC
Norma Peebles 2015 Vice Preside $0 $0 SPECIALIZED COMMUNITY CARE
Mark Saba 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT AUTOMOBILE DEALERS INC
Ed Bracey 2015 Tiler $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Jerome L Belinson Md 2014 Director $0 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Sally Cowal 2014 Director $0 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Samantha Keane 2014 Director $0 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Adam Pesce 2014 Director $0 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Harshad Sanghvi Md 2014 Director $0 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Brett Struwe 2014 Director $0 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Frank Dennis 2014 Chair $0 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Robert Fulmer 2014 Vice-Chair $0 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Linda Smithers 2014 Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Geoffrey Tabin Md 2015 Chairman $0 $0 HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
Randall Olson Md 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
Matthew Oliva Md 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
Adrienne Graves Phd 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
Stewart Halpern 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
Farran Tozer Brown 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
Maureen Loy 2014 Vice President $0 $0 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE AUXILIARY
Margaret Baratto 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE AUXILIARY

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.