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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Oliver Mayers 2016 Director $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY FOODS CORP
Edward Druke 2015 Trustee (Eff. 11/2015) $0 $0 CARLOS G OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
Larry Mandell 2016 Chairman $0 $0 PUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE INC
Sheila Reed 2016 Secretary $0 $0 PUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE INC
Carlen Finn 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 PUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE INC
Steve Gold 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 PUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE INC
Gaye Symington 2016 Board Member $0 $0 PUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE INC
Tiffany Bluemle 2016 Board Member $0 $0 PUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE INC
Scudder Parker 2016 Board Member $0 $0 PUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE INC
Kristin Burdge 2016 Chair, Natio $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Rosetta Morse 2016 Vice-Chair, $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Andrew Lassiter 2016 Secretary, N $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Eric Groberg 2016 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Neal Warren 2016 Treasurer, N $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Kiele Mauricio 2016 Vice-Chair, $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Jonna Greene 2016 Chair, Bosto $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Sam Pipp 2016 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Christopher Higgins 2016 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Lauren Higgins 2016 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Caitlin Conn 2016 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Julie Barbour 2016 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Jeff Alvanas 2016 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Paul Espina 2016 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Neil Groberg 2016 Chair, Vermo $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Sally Portman 2016 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM 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.