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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Theresa Masiello 2017 President $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION INC
David Neumeister 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION INC
Lester Fairbanks 2017 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION INC
Dart Everett 2017 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION INC
Eric Anderson 2017 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION INC
Melinda Taggard 2017 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION INC
Steven Moore 2017 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION INC
Donna Borofsky 2017 Advisory Dir $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION INC
Betty Tyler 2017 Advisory Dir $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION INC
Thomas Johnson 2017 Director Eme $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION INC
Robert Chutter 2017 President $0 $0 SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC
Kathleen Swanson 2017 Vice-President $0 $0 SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC
Lisa Pendolino 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC
Richard Heilman 2017 Secretary $0 $0 SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC
Christine Mack 2017 Director $0 $0 SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC
Peter Zamore 2017 Director $0 $0 SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC
Bob Reese 2017 Director $0 $0 SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC
Steven Robinson 2017 Director $0 $0 SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC
Reina Warren 2017 Director $0 $0 SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC
Alan Nadeau 2017 President $0 $0 SPORTSMANS CLUB OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INCORPORATED
John Jacob 2017 Vice President $0 $0 SPORTSMANS CLUB OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INCORPORATED
Melissa Danforth 2017 Secretary $0 $0 SPORTSMANS CLUB OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INCORPORATED
Dennis Barton 2013 Board $0 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK INC
Judy Peterson Rn Bsn 2013 Board $0 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK INC
Sarah Narkewicz Rn Ms Cde 2013 Board $0 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK 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.