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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Amey Ryan 2017 President $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
Christy Lynn 2017 Secretary $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
Chris Hammond 2017 Vice President $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
Charlotte Safran 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK
Eddie Ryan 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 DOWNTOWN RUTLAND PARTNERSHIP INC
John Zawistoski 2017 Secretary $0 $0 DOWNTOWN RUTLAND PARTNERSHIP INC
Rebecca Buonadonna 2017 Director $0 $0 DOWNTOWN RUTLAND PARTNERSHIP INC
Paul Cioffi 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD FAMILY CENTER INC
George Keeler 2017 Secretary $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD FAMILY CENTER INC
Anne Gorrigan 2017 Board Member $0 $0 WINOOSKI PARTNERSHIP FOR PREVENTION INC
Aislinn Doyle 2017 Secretary $0 $0 WINOOSKI PARTNERSHIP FOR PREVENTION INC
Katie Miller 2017 Board Member $0 $0 WINOOSKI PARTNERSHIP FOR PREVENTION INC
Madeline Graham 2017 Board Member $0 $0 WINOOSKI PARTNERSHIP FOR PREVENTION INC
Lorna Ricard 2017 President $0 $0 THE HARTFORD LIBRARY
Mary Boooth Benton 2017 Vice President $0 $0 THE HARTFORD LIBRARY
Carole Haehnel 2017 Secretary $0 $0 THE HARTFORD LIBRARY
Lani Janisse 2017 Director $0 $0 THE HARTFORD LIBRARY
Tom Bachman 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN
Gary Nokes 2017 Secretary $0 $0 GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN
Melissa Battah 2017 Board Member $0 $0 GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN
Betsy Vanderlip 2017 Board Member $0 $0 GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN
Rick Deangelis 2017 Board Member $0 $0 GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN
Katherine Nelson 2017 Board Member $0 $0 GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN
Patrick Brown 2017 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC
James Cohen 2017 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT 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.