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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Arline Bronzaft 2017 Board Member $0 $0 THE NOISE POLLUTION CLEARINGHOUSE INC
Henry Labalme 2017 Board Member $0 $0 THE NOISE POLLUTION CLEARINGHOUSE INC
Steve Gold 2017 President $0 $0 KELLOGG HUBBARD LIBRARY
Craig Line 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 KELLOGG HUBBARD LIBRARY
Amy Cunningham 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 KELLOGG HUBBARD LIBRARY
Susan Zeller 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 KELLOGG HUBBARD LIBRARY
Rachel Muse 2017 Secretary $0 $0 KELLOGG HUBBARD LIBRARY
Lindy Biggs 2017 Trustee $0 $0 KELLOGG HUBBARD LIBRARY
Kate Connizzo 2017 Trustee $0 $0 KELLOGG HUBBARD LIBRARY
Tim Donovan 2017 Trustee $0 $0 KELLOGG HUBBARD LIBRARY
Penny Marwede 2017 Trustee $0 $0 KELLOGG HUBBARD LIBRARY
John Puleio 2017 Trustee $0 $0 KELLOGG HUBBARD LIBRARY
Sherry Sousa 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 SPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTER OF THE UPPER VALLEY
Vince Mennona 2017 Director $0 $0 SPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTER OF THE UPPER VALLEY
Peter Garland 2017 Director $0 $0 SPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTER OF THE UPPER VALLEY
Marcy Sanborn 2017 Director $0 $0 SPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTER OF THE UPPER VALLEY
Susan Zoe Kopp 2017 President $0 $0 GRACE CARES INCORPORATED
Dean Gallea 2017 Vice President $0 $0 GRACE CARES INCORPORATED
Ellen Eiseman 2017 Member $0 $0 GRACE CARES INCORPORATED
Sandra Wilcox 2017 Member $0 $0 GRACE CARES INCORPORATED
James Foster Jr 2016 President $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY FAIR AND FIELD DAYS INC
William Roleau 2016 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY FAIR AND FIELD DAYS INC
Kathy Nisun 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY FAIR AND FIELD DAYS INC
Brenda Deering 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY FAIR AND FIELD DAYS INC
Diane Norris 2016 Vice President $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY FAIR AND FIELD DAYS 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.