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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Ellen Podgurski 2017 President $0 $0 THE BELLOWS FALLS POLISH-AMERICAN CLUB 1 INC
Ali Waite Bigwood 2017 Secretary $0 $0 THE BELLOWS FALLS POLISH-AMERICAN CLUB 1 INC
Mary Lawlor 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 THE BELLOWS FALLS POLISH-AMERICAN CLUB 1 INC
Juan Camilo Vanegas 2017 Secretary $0 $0 MEDLIFE
Jerry Ellis 2017 Vice President/Treasurer $0 $0 MEDLIFE
Eleanor Tison 2017 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FARM AND FOOD LINK
Geof Brown 2017 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FARM AND FOOD LINK
Marli Rupe 2017 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FARM AND FOOD LINK
Maria Reade 2017 Secretary $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FARM AND FOOD LINK
Nancy Mark 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FARM AND FOOD LINK
John Pollard 2017 Vice President $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FARM AND FOOD LINK
Nicholas J Markowski 2017 President $0 $0 TOM FISKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC
William F Fiske 2017 Vice President $0 $0 TOM FISKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC
Linda Conway 2017 Secretary $0 $0 TOM FISKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC
Brenda Wilk 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 TOM FISKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC
Barbara Harison 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 CYSTIC FIBROSIS LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION
David Theran 2013 Director $0 $0 CYSTIC FIBROSIS LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION
Dawn Yardis 2013 Director $0 $0 CYSTIC FIBROSIS LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION
Cindy Fortunato 2013 Director $0 $0 CYSTIC FIBROSIS LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION
Walter Liggett 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 CAPITAL CITY CONCERTS INC
Michael Sherman 2017 Secretary/Tr $0 $0 CAPITAL CITY CONCERTS INC
Janet Ressler 2017 Director $0 $0 CAPITAL CITY CONCERTS INC
Carol Beatty 2017 Director $0 $0 CAPITAL CITY CONCERTS INC
Lois Liggett 2017 Director $0 $0 CAPITAL CITY CONCERTS INC
Joan Spiegel 2017 Director $0 $0 CAPITAL CITY CONCERTS 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.