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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Gerald Tarrant 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC
Steve Julian Cpa 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
See Schedule 2016 See Schedule $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HARWOOD HOCKEY
Giselle Carino 2016 Secretary $0 $0 WOMENS LINK WORLDWIDE INC
Indira Goris 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WOMENS LINK WORLDWIDE INC
Karen Plafker 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WOMENS LINK WORLDWIDE INC
Carmen Oliart 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WOMENS LINK WORLDWIDE INC
Paula Samper Salazar 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 WOMENS LINK WORLDWIDE INC
Patti Billard 2016 President/Di $0 $0 THE YWCA OF VERMONT INC
Karin Bloom 2016 Director $0 $0 THE YWCA OF VERMONT INC
Jeanne Christensen 2016 Director $0 $0 THE YWCA OF VERMONT INC
Gilberte Pierre 2016 Director $0 $0 THE YWCA OF VERMONT INC
Betsy Andrews 2016 Director $0 $0 THE YWCA OF VERMONT INC
Lili Foster 2016 Director $0 $0 THE YWCA OF VERMONT INC
Nancy Martel 2016 Vp/Director $0 $0 THE YWCA OF VERMONT INC
Sherri Maxman 2016 Director $0 $0 THE YWCA OF VERMONT INC
Lina Balcom 2016 Director $0 $0 THE YWCA OF VERMONT INC
Julie Decuypere 2016 Director $0 $0 THE YWCA OF VERMONT INC
Steve Rand 2016 Director $0 $0 CENTERS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INC
Eric Rwabuhihi 2016 Secretary $0 $0 CENTERS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INC
Sara White 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BENNINGTON COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
Shelley Colvin 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 BENNINGTON COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
Bob Brault 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Bob Sager 2016 Director $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
Tommy Walz 2016 Director $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS

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.