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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Joshua Burns 2017 President $0 $0 NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLHOUSE OF BRATTLEBORO INC
James Kirby 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLHOUSE OF BRATTLEBORO INC
David Houghton 2017 Secretary $0 $0 NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLHOUSE OF BRATTLEBORO INC
Dan Long 2017 Director $0 $0 NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLHOUSE OF BRATTLEBORO INC
Kira Storm 2017 Director $0 $0 NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLHOUSE OF BRATTLEBORO INC
Michelle Stephens 2017 Director $0 $0 NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLHOUSE OF BRATTLEBORO INC
James Chandler 2017 Member $0 $0 MONROE PLACE CORPORATION
Christine Finley 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 MONROE PLACE CORPORATION
Jeanne Finan 2017 Member $0 $0 MONROE PLACE CORPORATION
James Hester 2017 Member $0 $0 MONROE PLACE CORPORATION
Erik Hoekstra 2017 Member $0 $0 MONROE PLACE CORPORATION
Polly Nichol 2017 Member $0 $0 MONROE PLACE CORPORATION
Kim Fitzgerald 2017 Ceo $0 $0 MONROE PLACE CORPORATION
Michael Robillard 2017 Trustee $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS
Sheila Celata 2017 Board Chair $0 $0 YOUTH CATALYTICS INC
Mary Imbornone 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 YOUTH CATALYTICS INC
Rosemarie Burton 2017 Trustee $0 $0 YOUTH CATALYTICS INC
James Hester 2017 Member $0 $0 JERI HILL HOUSING CORPORATION
Polly Nichol 2017 Member $0 $0 JERI HILL HOUSING CORPORATION
Christopher L Davis 2017 Vice President $0 $0 JERI HILL HOUSING CORPORATION
Kim Fitzgerald 2017 Ceo $0 $0 JERI HILL HOUSING CORPORATION
Wanda Atomanuk 2016 Board Member $0 $0 GUILFORD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Frederick Gilbar 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Patrick Corsney 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC
Andrew Cook 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES 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.