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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Gigi Valley 2017 Board Member $0 $0 TURNING POINT CENTER OF ADDISONCOUNTY INC
Amanda Everse 2017 Board Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR GIFTED EDUCATION INC
Chris Peterson 2017 Board Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR GIFTED EDUCATION INC
Kelly Ann Donahue 2016 Director $0 $0 ORANGE EAST SENIOR CENTER INC
Debbie Pinney 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR GIFTED EDUCATION INC
Brink Hartman 2017 President $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Troy Williams 2017 Vice President $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
George Zutell 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
David Haber 2017 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
George Long 2017 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Marie Daly 2017 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Bob Sheehan 2017 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Len Morris 2017 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Gerard Cattie 2017 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Rob Comerford 2017 Secretary $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Murray Haber 2017 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Louise Bonvechio 2017 President $0 $0 PASSUMPSIC VIEW INC
Reverend Jeffrey Potter 2017 Director $0 $0 PASSUMPSIC VIEW INC
Scott Campbell 2017 Director $0 $0 PASSUMPSIC VIEW INC
Tim O'Neill 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 PASSUMPSIC VIEW INC
Victoria Strong 2017 Director $0 $0 PASSUMPSIC VIEW INC
Sherrill Gould 2017 Grand Matron $0 $0 ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF VT
James Chancey 2017 Grand Patron $0 $0 ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF VT
David Riegel 2015 Executive Dir. $0 $0 VERMONT FOUNDATION OF RECOVERY INC
Melissa Riegel-Garrett 2015 President $0 $0 VERMONT FOUNDATION OF RECOVERY 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.