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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jeanne Christensen 2017 Director $0 $0 THE YWCA OF VERMONT INC
Lili Foster 2017 Director $0 $0 THE YWCA OF VERMONT INC
Claire Lavoie 2017 Director $0 $0 THE YWCA OF VERMONT INC
Patty Houston 2017 Director $0 $0 THE YWCA OF VERMONT INC
Matthew T Mantone 2017 President $0 $0 GENTLE GIANT FUNDRAISING INC
Benjamin R Clarke 2017 Director $0 $0 GENTLE GIANT FUNDRAISING INC
Thomas Alexander 2017 Director $0 $0 GENTLE GIANT FUNDRAISING INC
Deborah Estabrook 2017 Chair $0 $0 KING STREET CENTER INC
John Bossange 2017 Vice-Chair $0 $0 KING STREET CENTER INC
Emily Mazzulla 2017 Secretary $0 $0 KING STREET CENTER INC
Grant Leibersberger 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 KING STREET CENTER INC
Carol Boardman 2017 Director $0 $0 KING STREET CENTER INC
Matthew Campbell 2017 Director $0 $0 KING STREET CENTER INC
Hank Elitzer 2017 Director $0 $0 KING STREET CENTER INC
Stacie Fagan 2017 Director $0 $0 KING STREET CENTER INC
Mary Gleason 2017 Director $0 $0 KING STREET CENTER INC
Scott Hadley 2017 Director $0 $0 KING STREET CENTER INC
Molly Langan 2017 Director $0 $0 KING STREET CENTER INC
Michelle Lewis 2017 Director $0 $0 KING STREET CENTER INC
Jai Macker 2017 Director $0 $0 KING STREET CENTER INC
Eric Ode 2017 Director $0 $0 KING STREET CENTER INC
Elzy Wick 2017 Director $0 $0 KING STREET CENTER INC
Bradford Holden 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF LAND SURVEYORS INC
Mark Day 2017 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF LAND SURVEYORS INC
Lisa Ginett 2017 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF LAND SURVEYORS 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.