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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Ira Bernstein 2017 Trustee $0 $0 UNIVERSITY MEDICAL EDUCATION
James Crook 2017 Trustee $0 $0 UNIVERSITY MEDICAL EDUCATION
Harry Chen 2017 Trustee $0 $0 UNIVERSITY MEDICAL EDUCATION
James Buell 2017 Clerk/Treasurer $0 $0 UNIVERSITY MEDICAL EDUCATION
Polly Parsons 2017 Trustee $0 $0 UNIVERSITY MEDICAL EDUCATION
Todd Keating 2017 Trustee $0 $0 UNIVERSITY MEDICAL EDUCATION
Robert Linck 2017 Vice-Chair $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
Susan Flynn 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
Suzanne Griffiths 2017 Secretary $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
Marvin Brown 2017 Finance Comm $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
Don Houghton 2017 Trustee $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
Saul Trevino 2017 Trustee $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
Matthew Krebs 2017 Trustee $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
Heather Purintin 2017 Director $0 $0 HINESBURG COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC
Aliena Gerhard 2017 Trustee $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
Jon Freeman 2017 President $0 $0 MEMORIAL DRIVE NMTC HOLDINGS INC
David Snedeker 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 MEMORIAL DRIVE NMTC HOLDINGS INC
Tara Holt 2017 Secretary $0 $0 MEMORIAL DRIVE NMTC HOLDINGS INC
Susan Boyle 2017 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Jacqueline Simpson 2017 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Michelle Champoux 2017 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Vicky Swenor 2017 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Jan Hebert 2017 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Dawn Carey-Smith 2017 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Jennifer Edelstein 2017 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION

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.