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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Dr Beth Ann Maier 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Annop Pongwat Phd 2016 Director $0 $0 GLOBAL CAMPUSES FOUNDATION
Penrose Jackson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
John Bookwalter 2016 Trustee $0 $0 RESCUE INC
Lori Cyr 2014 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE
John Stokes 2016 Hon Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Nancy Hill 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
William Neilson 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
John Canning 2016 Controller $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Ben Bosher 2016 President $0 $0 RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC
Robyn Sonis 2015 President $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
Glenn Varricchione 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC
Marshall Van Norden 2014 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD LIBRARY FEDERATION INC
Kate Lafferty 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC
Mary P Feidner 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Tj Kingsbury 2016 Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Ron Cioffi 2015 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Ginny Sharp 2015 Secretary $0 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC
Sarah Dopp 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Katherine Arthaud 2016 Secretary $0 $0 RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC
Roshan Siva Md 2015 Director Ending 6/2016 $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Joss Besse 2016 Asst. Secret $0 $0 RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC
Stephen Leffler Md 2015 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Joseph A Bertolino 2015 President $0 $0 VERMONT HIGHER EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL INC
Tj Sabotka 2015 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND HOSPITAL 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.