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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Bender Jarvis Jean H 2013 Trustee $0 $0 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Frazier Lindsay A Md 2013 Trustee $0 $0 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Mann Robert G 2013 Trustee $0 $0 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Schulzinger Elizabeth 2013 Trustee $0 $0 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Michaelson Patricia A 2013 Trustee $0 $0 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Richardson George P 2013 Trustee $0 $0 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Rosenfeld Fran W 2013 Trustee $0 $0 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Streeter Deborah W 2013 Trustee $0 $0 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Zipf Jr Stephen A 2013 Trustee $0 $0 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Slaughter Matthew 2013 Trustee $0 $0 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Clearwater Susan B 2013 Trustee $0 $0 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Pughe Charles W 2013 Trustee $0 $0 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Overtree Christopher 2013 Trustee $0 $0 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Steven Young 2013 Secretary $0 $0 CENTER FOR MINDFUL LEARNING INC
Sondra Solomon 2013 Director $0 $0 CENTER FOR MINDFUL LEARNING INC
Richard Peabody 2013 Director $0 $0 CENTER FOR MINDFUL LEARNING INC
Greg Cooper 2013 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Bryn Oakleaf 2013 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Sharon Yergeau 2013 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Robert Isner 2013 President $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
George Macdonald 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Hurley Cavacas 2013 Commander $0 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Phil Carroll 2013 Chaplin $0 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Larry Caruso 2013 Adjutant $0 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Virginia Carter 2013 Secretary $0 $0 POPULATION MEDIA CENTER 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.