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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Linda Williamson 2014 Board Member $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION INC
Liz Julian-Tuggle 2014 Board Member $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION INC
Penny Williams 2014 Board Member $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION INC
Shelly Marquise 2014 Board Member $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION INC
Jamie Fields 2014 Board Member $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION INC
Norman Frates Jr 2014 President $0 $0 ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
Sylvie Lavoie-Finer 2014 Director $0 $0 ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
Bettyanne Mcguire 2014 Vice President $0 $0 ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
Katie Merill 2014 Secretary $0 $0 ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
Dennis Shillen 2014 Director $0 $0 ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
Nerissa Edwards 2014 Director $0 $0 ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
Ron Jaynes 2014 Director $0 $0 ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
Susan Copeland 2014 Director $0 $0 ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
Helen Norton 2014 Director $0 $0 ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
Lisa Burrell 2014 Director $0 $0 ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
Michael Heston 2014 President $0 $0 VERMONT NATIONAL GUARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
Phil Murdock 2014 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT NATIONAL GUARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
Doris Sumner 2014 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT NATIONAL GUARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
Jean Kleptz 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT NATIONAL GUARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
Toby Quick 2014 Member $0 $0 VERMONT NATIONAL GUARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
Celia Asbell 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 VSA VERMONT INC
Geoff Hand 2013 Vice President $0 $0 VSA VERMONT INC
Priscilla Latkin 2013 Director $0 $0 VSA VERMONT INC
Hilary Maslow 2013 Director $0 $0 VSA VERMONT INC
Stephanie Winters 2014 Executive Dir. $0 $0 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS

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.