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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jim Merkel 2013 Officer $0 $0 METTA EARTH INSTITUTE INC
Agi-Hasita Nadai 2013 Officer $0 $0 METTA EARTH INSTITUTE INC
David Edwards 2013 President $0 $0 VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITIUTE INC
Evan Fitzgerald 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITIUTE INC
Marta Ceroni 2013 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITIUTE INC
Lauren Ornelas 2013 Director $0 $0 VINE-VEGANISM IS THE NEXT EVOLUTION INCORPORATED
Mary Finelli 2013 Director $0 $0 VINE-VEGANISM IS THE NEXT EVOLUTION INCORPORATED
Martha Dale 2015 Trustee $0 $0 CARLOS G OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
Miriam Jones 2013 Co-President $0 $0 VINE-VEGANISM IS THE NEXT EVOLUTION INCORPORATED
Jeri Schneider 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 VINE-VEGANISM IS THE NEXT EVOLUTION INCORPORATED
Amy Trakinski 2013 Secretary $0 $0 VINE-VEGANISM IS THE NEXT EVOLUTION INCORPORATED
Beth Tanzman 2013 President $0 $0 ALYSSUM INC
Chandar Hall 2013 Vice President $0 $0 ALYSSUM INC
Marty Roberts 2013 Secretary $0 $0 ALYSSUM INC
Amy Wales 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 ALYSSUM INC
Hilary Melton 2013 Director $0 $0 ALYSSUM INC
Edward Cupoli 2013 President $0 $0 PICO SKI CLUB INC
Leslie Moore 2013 V. President $0 $0 PICO SKI CLUB INC
Andrew Maass 2013 Secretary $0 $0 PICO SKI CLUB INC
David Lambert 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 PICO SKI CLUB INC
Geof Brown 2013 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FARM AND FOOD LINK
Eleanor Tison 2013 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FARM AND FOOD LINK
John Valente 2013 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FARM AND FOOD LINK
Martha Johnson 2013 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FARM AND FOOD LINK
Mike Horner 2013 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FARM AND FOOD LINK

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.