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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Elsa Borrero 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT JAZZ CENTER INC
Rob Freeberg 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT JAZZ CENTER INC
Jed Blume 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT JAZZ CENTER INC
Lyndall Boal 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT JAZZ CENTER INC
Vincent Schiavone 2015 Secretary/Treas $0 $0 NATIONAL ELEVATOR BARGAININGASSOCIATION
Ricci Amarosa 2015 President $0 $0 NATIONAL ELEVATOR BARGAININGASSOCIATION
Patrick Heaney 2015 Vice President $0 $0 NATIONAL ELEVATOR BARGAININGASSOCIATION
Christine Petrachuk 2015 Vice President $0 $0 NATIONAL ELEVATOR BARGAININGASSOCIATION
Willis Chip Stearns 2015 Secretary $0 $0 SOUTHEAST VERMONT TRANSIT INC
Eithne Eldred 2015 Board Member $0 $0 SOUTHEAST VERMONT TRANSIT INC
Matt Mann 2015 Board Member $0 $0 SOUTHEAST VERMONT TRANSIT INC
Tom Marsh 2015 President $0 $0 SOUTHEAST VERMONT TRANSIT INC
Wendy Harrison 2015 Board Member $0 $0 SOUTHEAST VERMONT TRANSIT INC
Marco Tallini 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 SOUTHEAST VERMONT TRANSIT INC
Alan Jones 2015 Jr Vice Commander $0 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Tom Rees 2015 President $0 $0 NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC
Cece Teague 2015 Secretary & Director $0 $0 NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC
Dr Nancy Grossman 2015 Director $0 $0 NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC
Erin Chastenay 2015 Director $0 $0 NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC
Gil Mathys 2015 Director $0 $0 NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC
Stephen Miller 2015 Director $0 $0 NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC
Josh Vanbenthuysen 2015 Director $0 $0 NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC
Luke Mclaughry 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST
Brendin Beaulieu-Jones 2015 Trustee $0 $0 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST
Ethan Frechette 2015 Chair $0 $0 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST

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.