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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Elizabeth Healy 2016 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Tom Wilson 2016 Treasurer, V $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Tia Ganguly 2016 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Cheryl Houchens 2016 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Maggie Potter 2016 Chair, Phila $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Jon Potter 2016 Treasurer, P $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Chau Lam 2016 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Bryan Wellens 2016 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Maron Deering 2016 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Elena Piperno 2016 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Sam Glickman 2016 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Sarah Rawes 2016 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Deirdre Butler 2016 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Josie Pickens 2016 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Sean Meluney 2016 Director $0 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Rev Earl Kooperkamp 2016 President $0 $0 VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC
Fran Carlson 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC
Br Tom Berube 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC
Br Frank Hagerty 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC
Karen Corbman 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC
Sandra Schlosser 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC
Jo Bradley 2013 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE
Timothy J Donovan 2013 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE
Don George 2013 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE
Edward F Adler 2013 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE

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.