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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Janet Franz 2013 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT GOVERNORS COUNCIL ON PHYSICAL FITNESS
Suzanne Kelley 2013 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT GOVERNORS COUNCIL ON PHYSICAL FITNESS
Alex Pial 2013 Vice Chair $0 $0 ASSOCIATION OF AFRICANS LIVING IN VERMONT
Ben Bannerman 2013 Board Treasurer $0 $0 ASSOCIATION OF AFRICANS LIVING IN VERMONT
Germain Mopa Njila 2013 Board Secretary $0 $0 ASSOCIATION OF AFRICANS LIVING IN VERMONT
Victor Bordman 2013 Vice Treasurer $0 $0 ASSOCIATION OF AFRICANS LIVING IN VERMONT
Steven A Cavaleri 2013 Trustee $0 $0 CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE ORGANIZATIONS INC
Joseph Firestone 2013 Trustee/Secretary $0 $0 CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE ORGANIZATIONS INC
Cynthia Carr 2013 President $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
Megan Martell 2013 Vice-President $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
Alvan Carr 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
Nathan Bedford 2013 Board Member $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
Linda King 2013 Board Member $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
Joan Cnossen 2013 Board Member $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
Lisa Jenison 2013 Board Member $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
Krissa Jamieson 2013 Board Member $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
Sue Dillon 2013 Board Member $0 $0 HANNAHS HOUSE INC
Nina Harrington 2016 Secretary $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
Ann Madeloni 2016 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
Kendall Hoechst 2016 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
Marian Fritz 2016 Board President $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
Ricky Padgett 2016 Board Vp/Treasurer $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
Jasmine Walker 2016 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
James Calvin Davis 2016 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
Ali Dieng 2016 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY 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.