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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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 Weiner 2017 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN COUNTY FISH & GAME CLUB INC
Mauricio Rosales 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 GLADES YOUTH HOCKEY
Jeff Peck 2017 Vice President $0 $0 GLADES YOUTH HOCKEY
Michel Weppler 2017 Trustee $0 $0 BARBARA WILLIAMS SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Debra Burner 2017 Trustee $0 $0 BARBARA WILLIAMS SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Brad Bebedict 2017 Trustee $0 $0 BARBARA WILLIAMS SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Pall Spera 2017 Trustee $0 $0 BARBARA WILLIAMS SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Theodore Zdeblick 2017 Secretary $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND MASTERS STUDY CLUB
Gerry Fields 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MERTENS HOUSE INC
Susan Ford 2017 Vice President $0 $0 MERTENS HOUSE INC
Dave Doubleday 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MERTENS HOUSE INC
John Wannop 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 MERTENS HOUSE INC
Dr Lynn Peterson 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MERTENS HOUSE INC
David Sobel 2017 President $0 $0 SYNERGY LEARNING INTERNATIONAL INC
Meredith Wade 2017 Vice President $0 $0 SYNERGY LEARNING INTERNATIONAL INC
Kenneth Fishell 2017 Secretary $0 $0 SYNERGY LEARNING INTERNATIONAL INC
Casey Murrow 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 SYNERGY LEARNING INTERNATIONAL INC
Sherry Girard 2017 President $0 $0 POPE MEMORIAL FRONTIER ANIMAL SHELTER INC
Betsy Hampton 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 POPE MEMORIAL FRONTIER ANIMAL SHELTER INC
Chris Johnson 2017 President $0 $0 VERMONT STATE WOMENS GOLF ASSOCIATION
Peg Mcbride 2017 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT STATE WOMENS GOLF ASSOCIATION
Jena Wood 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT STATE WOMENS GOLF ASSOCIATION
Judy Manley 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT STATE WOMENS GOLF ASSOCIATION
Phyllis Simon 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT STATE WOMENS GOLF ASSOCIATION
Dee Macey 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT STATE WOMENS GOLF ASSOCIATION

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.