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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Carol Vallett 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Leslie Mccrorey Wells 2017 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
James Dumont 2017 Director $0 $0 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Bob Donnis 2017 Director $0 $0 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Peter Heinz 2017 Director $0 $0 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Carol Clauss 2017 Director $0 $0 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Douglas Bolger Phd 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC
Patrice Mushlin 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC
Maureen Sheldon 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC
Anne Silberfarb 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC
Todd Walker 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 FOUR WINDS NATURE INSTITUTEINCORPORATED
Steve Rauh 2017 President $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY SERVICES INC
Ron Poe 2017 Vice President $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY SERVICES INC
Louise Rauh 2017 Secretary $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY SERVICES INC
Russ Hotchkiss 2017 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY SERVICES INC
Diane Tensen 2017 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY SERVICES INC
Patsy French 2017 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY SERVICES INC
Susan Yuan 2017 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY SERVICES INC
Robert Sheftman 2017 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY SERVICES INC
Edwin Place 2017 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY SERVICES INC
Marilyn Grunewald 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY CARING COMMUNITIES INC
Amy Anderson 2017 Secretary $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY CARING COMMUNITIES INC
Julie Van Der Horst Jansen 2017 President $0 $0 HEARTSONG HEALTH IN COMMUNITY
Omer Van Der Horst Jansen 2017 Treasurer & Secretary $0 $0 HEARTSONG HEALTH IN COMMUNITY
Ruby Mcadoo 2017 Trustee $0 $0 HEARTSONG HEALTH IN COMMUNITY

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.