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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Julie Basol 2017 Vice President $0 $0 WOMEN OF WISDOM INC
Meg Brash 2017 Director $0 $0 WOMEN OF WISDOM INC
Joyce Hawes 2017 Director $0 $0 WOMEN OF WISDOM INC
Mary Mckinnon 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 WOMEN OF WISDOM INC
Liz Markowski 2017 Director $0 $0 WOMEN OF WISDOM INC
Patty Paul 2017 Director $0 $0 WOMEN OF WISDOM INC
Jeannie Pelsue 2017 Director $0 $0 WOMEN OF WISDOM INC
Tom Cohen 2017 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION COMMUNITY TELEVISION
Laura Vein 2017 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION COMMUNITY TELEVISION
Peg Bolgioni 2017 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION COMMUNITY TELEVISION
Mitch Golub 2017 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION COMMUNITY TELEVISION
Magdalena Salemno 2017 Vice President $0 $0 PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE
Nik Patel 2017 Vice President $0 $0 PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE
David Kearns 2017 Vice President $0 $0 PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE
Neil Delaney 2017 Vice President $0 $0 PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE
Alain Caron 2017 Vice President $0 $0 PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE
Sharon Baker 2017 Vice President $0 $0 CALEDONIA-ESSEX AREA AMBULANCE
Robbie Hallet 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 CALEDONIA-ESSEX AREA AMBULANCE
Laura Sophrin 2017 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA-ESSEX AREA AMBULANCE
Jody Brusseau 2017 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA-ESSEX AREA AMBULANCE
Barbara Byrne 2017 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA-ESSEX AREA AMBULANCE
Stephen West-Fisher 2017 President $0 $0 CALEDONIA-ESSEX AREA AMBULANCE
Tim Angell 2017 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA-ESSEX AREA AMBULANCE
Sara White 2017 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT COMPANION ANIMAL NEUTERING INC
Jenny Carter 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMPANION ANIMAL NEUTERING 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.