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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Tracy Porter 2015 Secretary $0 $0 EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL
Lori Ellis 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL
Les Cobb 2015 Board Member $0 $0 EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL
Kim Hopkins 2015 Board Member $0 $0 EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL
Gary Inzer 2015 Board Member $0 $0 EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL
Diane Forst 2015 President $0 $0 EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL
Mark Bartholomew 2015 Vice President $0 $0 EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL
Ann Mendez 2015 Secretary $0 $0 EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL
Cindy Hieter 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL
Leland Stege 2015 Union Representative $0 $0 EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL
Stan Gerbig 2015 Board Member $0 $0 EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL
Kevin Binder 2015 Board Member $0 $0 EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL
Susan Kunert 2015 Board Member $0 $0 EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL
Tammy Austin 2015 President $0 $0 EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL
Pattie Davenport 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL
Tracy Sizemore 2015 Secretary $0 $0 EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL
Brenda Ringley 2015 Board Member $0 $0 EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL
Stacy Blair 2015 Board Member $0 $0 EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL
Janet Odvody 2015 Board Member $0 $0 EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL
Teresa Burton 2015 Board Member $0 $0 EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL
Angie Morris 2015 Board Member $0 $0 EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL
Keith Pennington 2015 Board Member $0 $0 EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL
Shanna Ratner 2015 Vice President $0 $0 OPPORTUNITIES VENTURES INC
Linda Collins 2015 Director $0 $0 RICHFORD HEALTH CENTER INC
Cindy Weed 2015 Director $0 $0 RICHFORD HEALTH CENTER 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.