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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Rebecca Strum 2017 Board Member $0 $0 WOMENSAFE INC
Tom Rees 2017 President $0 $0 NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC
Cece Teague 2017 Secretary & Director $0 $0 NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC
Dr Nancy Grossman 2017 Director $0 $0 NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC
Erin Chastenay 2017 Director $0 $0 NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC
Gil Mathys 2017 Director $0 $0 NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC
Stephen Miller 2017 Director $0 $0 NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC
Josh Vanbenthuysen 2017 Director $0 $0 NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC
Brendin Beaulieu-Jones 2017 Trustee $0 $0 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST
Ethan Frechette 2017 Chair $0 $0 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST
Scott Hesser 2017 Secretary $0 $0 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST
Dan Stannard 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST
Rob Starkey 2017 Trustee $0 $0 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST
Denise Johnson 2017 Trustee $0 $0 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST
Sue Bridgeo 2017 Trustee $0 $0 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST
Carl Szlachetka 2017 Vice Chair $0 $0 COPLEY WOODLANDS INC
Elaine Nichols 2017 Chair $0 $0 COPLEY WOODLANDS INC
Julie Morse 2017 Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY WOODLANDS INC
Doug Viau 2017 Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0 COPLEY WOODLANDS INC
Anne Hancock 2017 Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY WOODLANDS INC
Rassoul Rangaviz 2017 Cfo $0 $0 COPLEY WOODLANDS INC
Arthur Mathisen 2017 President & Ceo $0 $0 COPLEY WOODLANDS INC
Christopher D'Elia 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
Amber L Barber Esq 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
James F Carroll Esq 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR 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.