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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Chris Pinkham 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL OF BANKING
James O'Neil Jr 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL OF BANKING
Cheryl Lafrance 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL OF BANKING
Angela Poirier 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL OF BANKING
Sandra Tracy 2015 Ex-Officio $0 $0 NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL OF BANKING
Judith Ribolini 2015 Ex-Officio $0 $0 NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL OF BANKING
Karen Hill 2014 President $0 $0 MT ASCUTNEY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CTR AUX
Jean Martaniuk 2014 Vice President $0 $0 MT ASCUTNEY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CTR AUX
Kathy Deschamp 2014 Secretary $0 $0 MT ASCUTNEY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CTR AUX
Torie Mesropian 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 MT ASCUTNEY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CTR AUX
Pat Waite 2014 Former President $0 $0 MT ASCUTNEY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CTR AUX
Candy Hingston 2014 Assistant Secretary $0 $0 MT ASCUTNEY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CTR AUX
Richard D Paisner 2014 Chair $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Jonathan Lash 2014 Vice Chair $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
John A Dooley 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Luann Bennett 2014 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Jan Blomstrann 2014 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Laurel Colless 2014 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Ann Condon 2014 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
David Grant 2014 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Madeleine M Kunin 2014 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Greg Nickels 2014 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Rev Eugene Taylor Sutton 2014 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Rev Michael Vinson 2015 President $0 $0 BOG CHAPEL
Zibilla Lee Wolfe 2015 Secretary $0 $0 BOG CHAPEL

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.