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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
William F Fiske 2015 Vice President $0 $0 TOM FISKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC
Linda Conway 2015 Secretary $0 $0 TOM FISKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC
Brenda Wilk 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 TOM FISKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC
Jeff Koonz 2014 President $0 $0 MIDDLESEX FIRE DEPARTMENT
Bill Smith 2014 Vice President $0 $0 MIDDLESEX FIRE DEPARTMENT
Shelly Hansen 2014 Secretary $0 $0 MIDDLESEX FIRE DEPARTMENT
Bob Bower 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 MIDDLESEX FIRE DEPARTMENT
Thomas Gallagher 2014 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
David Kimel 2014 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Dana Rocheleau 2014 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Jennifer Ciechanowicz 2014 Secretary $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Dean Pelkey 2014 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Robert Bick 2014 President $0 $0 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT INC
Ted Mable 2014 Vice Preside $0 $0 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT INC
Bill Ashe 2014 Secretary $0 $0 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT INC
Savi Van Sluytman 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT INC
Elizabeth Sightler 2014 Board Member $0 $0 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT INC
Linda Chambers 2014 Board Member $0 $0 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT INC
Bob Thorn 2014 Board Member $0 $0 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT INC
Julie Cunningham 2014 Board Member $0 $0 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT INC
Douglas Bouchard 2014 Board Member $0 $0 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT INC
Chuck Myers 2014 Board Member $0 $0 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT INC
Ralph Provenza 2014 Board Member $0 $0 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT INC
Mary Moulton 2014 Board Member $0 $0 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT INC
Richard Courcelle 2014 Board Member $0 $0 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT 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.