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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Dennis Boardman 2017 Board Chair $0 $0 CHELSEA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER
Joyce Miller 2017 Secretary $0 $0 CHELSEA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER
Zoe Aicher 2017 Board Member - Chelsea $0 $0 CHELSEA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER
Shirley Hewitt 2017 Board Member - Chelsea $0 $0 CHELSEA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER
Jean Button 2017 Board Member - Chelsea $0 $0 CHELSEA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER
Brenda Benoir 2017 Board Member - Vershire $0 $0 CHELSEA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER
Jean Mcdonald 2017 Boardmember - Vershire $0 $0 CHELSEA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER
Jim Lovinsky 2017 President $0 $0 COPLEY HOUSE INC
Michele Sullivan-Dubois 2017 Member $0 $0 COPLEY HOUSE INC
Ted Lambert 2017 Member $0 $0 COPLEY HOUSE INC
Craig Provost 2017 Member $0 $0 COPLEY HOUSE INC
David L Eckert 2017 Sr. Vice Commander $0 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Michael F Viens 2017 Judge Advocate $0 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Larry A Ranson 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Scott Boardman 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Matt Daly 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Erica Dean 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Yael Friedman 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Rosa Laboy-Hernandez 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Kathy Lacross 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Hank Lambert 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Bobbe Maynes 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Larry Michaels 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Jenny Naylor 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Heidi Stumpff 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS 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.