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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Bill Harrington 2014 Director $0 $0 BURLINGTON CHILDRENS SPACE INC
John Summerville 2016 Director $0 $0 AZIMUTH COUNSELING AND THERAPEUTIC SERVICES INC
Gregg Walsh 2016 President $0 $0 AZIMUTH COUNSELING AND THERAPEUTIC SERVICES INC
Scott Slocum 2016 Vice-President $0 $0 AZIMUTH COUNSELING AND THERAPEUTIC SERVICES INC
Carmen Tall 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 AZIMUTH COUNSELING AND THERAPEUTIC SERVICES INC
Otto Engelberth 2016 Secretary $0 $0 AZIMUTH COUNSELING AND THERAPEUTIC SERVICES INC
Christine Wilkens 2016 Executive Director $0 $0 AZIMUTH COUNSELING AND THERAPEUTIC SERVICES INC
Gregg Gervais 2015 Board Member $0 $0 NORTHWEST P E G TV INCORPORATED
Samantha Stevens 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VOICES FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN INC
Laura Schutz 2016 President $0 $0 EVERYBODY WINS VERMONT INC
Sue Cook 2016 Director $0 $0 EVERYBODY WINS VERMONT INC
Sharon Crites 2016 Director $0 $0 EVERYBODY WINS VERMONT INC
Joe Doud 2016 Director $0 $0 EVERYBODY WINS VERMONT INC
Beth Fastiggi 2016 Director $0 $0 EVERYBODY WINS VERMONT INC
Judson Hescock 2016 Director $0 $0 EVERYBODY WINS VERMONT INC
Laura King 2016 Director $0 $0 EVERYBODY WINS VERMONT INC
Beth Vessichio 2016 Director $0 $0 EVERYBODY WINS VERMONT INC
Robert Fulmer 2016 Vice-Chair $0 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Linda Smithers 2016 Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Sally Cowal 2016 Director $0 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Samantha Keane 2016 Director $0 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Adam Pesce 2016 Director $0 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Brett Struwe 2016 Director $0 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Janet Newton 2016 President $0 $0 EMR POLICY INSTITUTE INC
Deborah Carney 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 EMR POLICY INSTITUTE 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.