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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Carolyn Derosia 2014 Vice President $0 $0 WEST BARNET SENIOR MEAL SITE
John Cook 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 WEST BARNET SENIOR MEAL SITE
Donald Dickinson 2014 Member $0 $0 WEST BARNET SENIOR MEAL SITE
Julie Murphy 2014 Member $0 $0 WEST BARNET SENIOR MEAL SITE
Carol Fournier 2014 Member $0 $0 WEST BARNET SENIOR MEAL SITE
Julie Maloof 2014 President $0 $0 WESTGATE HOUSING INC
Wendy Scott 2014 Director $0 $0 WESTGATE HOUSING INC
Kara Orfanidis 2014 Director $0 $0 WESTGATE HOUSING INC
Mary Tier 2014 Director $0 $0 WESTGATE HOUSING INC
Byron Stookey 2014 Secretary $0 $0 WESTGATE HOUSING INC
Sandra Pechillo 2014 Director $0 $0 WESTGATE HOUSING INC
Shannon Thomas 2014 Director $0 $0 WESTGATE HOUSING INC
Susan Howes 2014 Director $0 $0 WESTGATE HOUSING INC
Brooke Cunningham 2014 Director $0 $0 ROZALIA PROJECT
Alex Defelice 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 HARTFORD YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION
Larry Wohler 2013 Board Member $0 $0 MOUNTAIN SCHOOL AT WINHALL INC
Betsy Cetron 2013 Board Member $0 $0 MOUNTAIN SCHOOL AT WINHALL INC
Laurie Caplan 2013 Board Member $0 $0 MOUNTAIN SCHOOL AT WINHALL INC
Marcus Carr 2013 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC
Dawn Francis 2013 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC
Ben Joseph 2013 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC
Frank Koss 2013 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC
Mary Morrissey 2013 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC
James Whitcomb 2013 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC
Kristin Wright 2013 Secretary $0 $0 CHITTENDEN CHILDRENS ADVOCACY 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.