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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Edward Willenbaker 2016 Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0 CHITTENDEN HOUSING CORPORATION
Diane Potvin 2016 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN HOUSING CORPORATION
David Dence 2016 President $0 $0 VERDMONT OUTING CLUB
Michael Frampton 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERDMONT OUTING CLUB
David Naaktgeboren 2016 Vice President $0 $0 VERDMONT OUTING CLUB
Dan Zwynenburg 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERDMONT OUTING CLUB
Lorelei Wyman 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 RHYTHM OF THE REIN INC
Mary Cobb 2016 Secretary $0 $0 RHYTHM OF THE REIN INC
Sara St Peter 2016 Chair $0 $0 RHYTHM OF THE REIN INC
Dianne Lashoones 2016 Program Dire $0 $0 RHYTHM OF THE REIN INC
Linda Wirts 2016 Director $0 $0 CAREPARTNERS ADULT DAY CENTER INC
William Allen 2016 President $0 $0 VERMONT CHILDRENS TRUST FOUNDATION
Sueann Van Buren 2016 Vice-President $0 $0 VERMONT CHILDRENS TRUST FOUNDATION
John Scheer 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT CHILDRENS TRUST FOUNDATION
Carol Huntington 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT CHILDRENS TRUST FOUNDATION
Jeff Koonz 2016 President $0 $0 MIDDLESEX FIRE DEPARTMENT
Bill Smith 2016 Vice President $0 $0 MIDDLESEX FIRE DEPARTMENT
Bob Bower 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 MIDDLESEX FIRE DEPARTMENT
Jeffrey Benay 2016 Pres $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY CARING COMMUNITIES INC
Marilyn Grunewald 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY CARING COMMUNITIES INC
Nathan Muehl 2016 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY CARING COMMUNITIES INC
Christopher Billado 2016 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY CARING COMMUNITIES INC
Crystal Lampman 2016 V Pres $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY CARING COMMUNITIES INC
Joellen Calderara 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT LONG TERM DISASTER RECOVERY GROUP INC
Joy Worland 2016 Secretary $0 $0 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LAB 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.