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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Shabir Kamal 2014 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO OUTING CLUB INC
Dick Perez 2014 President $0 $0 DISMAS OF VERMONT INC
Marsha Fonteyn 2014 Member $0 $0 DISMAS OF VERMONT INC
Kimberly Parsons 2014 Member $0 $0 DISMAS OF VERMONT INC
Marykate Rowan 2014 Member $0 $0 DISMAS OF VERMONT INC
Frank Mccaffrey 2014 Secretary $0 $0 DISMAS OF VERMONT INC
Jeff Nielsen 2014 Member $0 $0 DISMAS OF VERMONT INC
Sue Buckholz 2014 Member $0 $0 DISMAS OF VERMONT INC
Joyce Mechling 2014 Member $0 $0 DISMAS OF VERMONT INC
Molly Burke 2014 Member $0 $0 DISMAS OF VERMONT INC
Ben Andrews 2014 Member $0 $0 DISMAS OF VERMONT INC
Vance Hosford 2015 Vice President (End 8/2016) $0 $0 GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION
Mrs Lillian Seward 2014 Lifetime Member $0 $0 BENNINGTON PROJECT INDEPENDENCE INC
Rep Mary Morrissey 2014 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON PROJECT INDEPENDENCE INC
Melissa Morrison 2014 Vice President $0 $0 BENNINGTON PROJECT INDEPENDENCE INC
Loune Viaud 2014 Director $0 $0 HAITI CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC
Dr Evan Lyon 2014 Director $0 $0 HAITI CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC
Dr James Wilentz 2014 Chairman $0 $0 HAITI CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC
Karen Gilmour 2014 President $0 $0 NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY
Anne Marinello 2014 Vice President $0 $0 NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY
Sarah Roberts 2014 Secretary $0 $0 NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY
Emily Boyd 2014 Trustee $0 $0 NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY
Andy Caffrey 2014 Trustee $0 $0 NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY
Ann Debevoise 2014 Trustee $0 $0 NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY
Jennifer Falvey 2014 Trustee $0 $0 NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY

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.