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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Christopher Gray 2013 Trustee $0 $0 AMERICAN PRECISION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
Malcolm Mason 2013 Trustee $0 $0 AMERICAN PRECISION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
Dr James Wilentz 2013 Chairman $0 $0 HAITI CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC
Kathryn Kempton 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 HAITI CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC
Loune Viaud 2013 Director $0 $0 HAITI CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC
Dr Evan Lyon 2013 Director $0 $0 HAITI CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC
Kate Anderson 2013 Vice President $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTSINC
Elizabeth Harris-Warner 2013 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTSINC
Bill Perry 2013 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTSINC
Wendy Redlinger 2013 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTSINC
Kerry Secrest 2013 President $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTSINC
Paul Stumpf 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTSINC
David Sobel 2013 President $0 $0 SYNERGY LEARNING INTERNATIONAL INC
Meredith Wade 2013 Vice President $0 $0 SYNERGY LEARNING INTERNATIONAL INC
Kenneth Fishell 2013 Secretary $0 $0 SYNERGY LEARNING INTERNATIONAL INC
Casey Murrow 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 SYNERGY LEARNING INTERNATIONAL INC
Karen Gaylin 2015 Secretary $0 $0 ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE INC
Garth Greimann 2015 Financial Secretary $0 $0 ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE INC
William Mayo 2015 Chair $0 $0 ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE INC
Michael Balinskas 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE INC
Rev James Hazelwood 2015 Ex-Officio $0 $0 ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE INC
Rev Timothy Yeadon 2015 Ex-Officio $0 $0 ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE INC
Paul Sisson 2014 Co-Chair $0 $0 PRIDE CENTER OF VERMONT INC
Clair Giroux-Williams 2014 Member $0 $0 PRIDE CENTER OF VERMONT INC
Gavin Santacross 2014 Member $0 $0 PRIDE CENTER 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.