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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kara Soulia 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FARM AND FOOD LINK
Martha Johnson 2014 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FARM AND FOOD LINK
John Pollard 2014 Vice President $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FARM AND FOOD LINK
Marli Rupe 2014 President $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FARM AND FOOD LINK
Dennis Ladd 2013 President $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Larry Clark 2013 Vice President $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Stewart Read 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Dorothy Read 2013 Director $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Marguerite Janiszyn 2013 Director $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Trish Dougherty 2013 President $0 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Peter Monte 2014 Chairman $0 $0 MAYO HEALTHCARE INC
Mike Donahue 2014 Vice Chair $0 $0 MAYO HEALTHCARE INC
Kathi Gregory 2014 Secretary $0 $0 MAYO HEALTHCARE INC
Andrea Hough 2014 Trustee $0 $0 MAYO HEALTHCARE INC
Michael Seaver 2014 Trustee $0 $0 MAYO HEALTHCARE INC
Martin Simon 2014 Trustee $0 $0 MAYO HEALTHCARE INC
Joseph P O'Brien 2014 Trustee $0 $0 MAYO HEALTHCARE INC
Jill Mackler 2013 President $0 $0 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Nancy Marnellos 2013 Vice Preside $0 $0 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Barbara Torian 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Paul Forlenza 2013 Director $0 $0 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Jen Peterson 2013 Director $0 $0 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Richard Nessen 2013 Secretary $0 $0 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
James Dumont 2013 Director $0 $0 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Michaela Wisell 2013 Director $0 $0 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE 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.