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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Warren Heibert 2014 President $0 $0 EMERGENCY RESPONDERS SUPPORTSERVICES
Connie Lee 2014 Secretary $0 $0 EMERGENCY RESPONDERS SUPPORTSERVICES
Betty Ball 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 EMERGENCY RESPONDERS SUPPORTSERVICES
Eileen Bolander 2014 Director/President $0 $0 ENHANCED LIVING INC
Mark Johnson 2014 Director/Vice Pres $0 $0 ENHANCED LIVING INC
Graham Gove 2014 Director/Treasurer $0 $0 ENHANCED LIVING INC
Dr James Barton 2014 Director/Vice Pres $0 $0 ENHANCED LIVING INC
Nancy Frost 2014 Director $0 $0 ENHANCED LIVING INC
Jane Kitchel 2014 Director $0 $0 ENHANCED LIVING INC
Martha Griswold 2014 Director $0 $0 ENHANCED LIVING INC
Diane Smarro 2014 Director $0 $0 ENHANCED LIVING INC
Gail Auclair 2014 Director $0 $0 ENHANCED LIVING INC
Linda Misinger 2014 Director $0 $0 ENHANCED LIVING INC
George Pratt 2014 Director $0 $0 ENHANCED LIVING INC
Adrienne D'Olimpio 2014 President $0 $0 VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC
Christopher Thompson 2014 Vice-Pres. $0 $0 VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC
Jennifer Mitchell 2014 Sec. $0 $0 VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC
Dawn Mcphee 2014 Treas. $0 $0 VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC
Edward H Paquin Jr 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING VCIL
Samuel E Liss 2013 Vice Preside $0 $0 VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING VCIL
Benjamin Wimett 2013 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING VCIL
Martha Roberts 2013 President $0 $0 VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING VCIL
Henry Demar 2013 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING VCIL
John Pierce 2013 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING VCIL
Bryan Pritchard 2013 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING VCIL

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.