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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Carola Lea 2017 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Madelaine Daniel 2017 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Chris Hoskin 2017 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Nancy P Clark 2017 President $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Winston Hart 2017 Director $0 $0 HV NONPROFIT INC
Charles Baker 2017 Director $0 $0 HV NONPROFIT INC
Nancy Owens 2017 Director $0 $0 HV NONPROFIT INC
Ken Sassorossi 2017 Director $0 $0 HV NONPROFIT INC
Megan Culp 2017 President $0 $0 WINDSOR COUNTY PARTNERS
Donna Lafleur 2017 Vice President $0 $0 WINDSOR COUNTY PARTNERS
John Bastille 2017 Secretary $0 $0 WINDSOR COUNTY PARTNERS
Bill Pedersen 2017 Trustee $0 $0 WINDSOR COUNTY PARTNERS
T R Paquin 2017 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Mary Morrisey 2017 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Dimitri Garder 2017 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Brenda Jones 2017 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Jonah Spivak 2017 President $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
David Evans 2017 Vice President $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Lynn Green 2017 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Mike Baker 2017 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Shannon Mclenithan 2017 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Maru Leon 2017 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Tom Dailey 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Arthur Whitman 2017 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Lindy Lynch 2017 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

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.