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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Mrs Lillian Seward 2015 Lifetime Member $0 $0 BENNINGTON PROJECT INDEPENDENCE INC
Rep Mary Morrissey 2015 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON PROJECT INDEPENDENCE INC
Lynn Stratton 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 BENNINGTON PROJECT INDEPENDENCE INC
Gloria Boutin 2015 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON PROJECT INDEPENDENCE INC
Michael Nigro 2015 President $0 $0 BENNINGTON PROJECT INDEPENDENCE INC
Melissa Morrison 2015 Vice President $0 $0 BENNINGTON PROJECT INDEPENDENCE INC
Judy Gordon 2015 Director $0 $0 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
Polly Allen 2015 Director $0 $0 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
Barry Bergey 2015 Director $0 $0 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
Michelle Bufano 2015 Director $0 $0 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
Don Friedlich 2015 Director $0 $0 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
John Haworth 2015 Director $0 $0 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
Cinda Holt 2015 Director $0 $0 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
Azim Mazagonwalla 2015 Director $0 $0 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
Christine O Robb 2015 Director $0 $0 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
Sylvie Rosenthal 2015 Director $0 $0 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
Felicia Shaw 2015 Director $0 $0 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
Peter Hood 2015 President $0 $0 ELMHILL INC
Ellen Selkowitz 2015 Secretary $0 $0 ELMHILL INC
Karen Heath 2015 Director $0 $0 ELMHILL INC
Daniel Marcus 2015 Director $0 $0 ELMHILL INC
Betsy Glynn 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 RUTLAND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS INC
Tim O'Connor 2015 Secretary $0 $0 RUTLAND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS INC
Susanne Engels 2015 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS INC
Katie Thomas 2015 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS 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.