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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Steve Berson 2015 Emeritus $0 $0 JEWISH COMMUNITY OF GREATER STOWE
Marcy Mcelroy 2016 Director $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
David Silverman 2016 Trustee $0 $0 LAMOILLE AREA HOUSING CORPORATION THE
Peter Steinerman 2015 Trustee $0 $0 JEWISH COMMUNITY OF GREATER STOWE
Nida Tansey 2015 Trustee $0 $0 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Beda Lyon 2014 Director $0 $0 THE LITTLE SCHOOL INC
Larry Gibs 2015 Trustee $0 $0 JEWISH COMMUNITY OF GREATER STOWE
Nicolas Wallaert 2016 Director $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Arthur Mathisen 2016 President & Ceo $0 $3,914 LAMOILLE AREA HOUSING CORPORATION THE
Shari Vermuelen 2015 Trustee $0 $0 JEWISH COMMUNITY OF GREATER STOWE
Jeremy Segal 2015 Youth Trustee $0 $0 JEWISH COMMUNITY OF GREATER STOWE
Dan Shea 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 MACLURE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC
Donald Abelson 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COVERTS
Bette Parsons 2016 Director $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Rassoul Rangaviz 2016 Cfo $0 $12,445 LAMOILLE AREA HOUSING CORPORATION THE
Cathy Croteau 2015 Trustee $0 $0 LOCAL 693 EDUCATION FUND
Fritz Martin 2016 Chairman $0 $0 RICHMOND LAND TRUST
Phillip Wilson 2015 Chair $0 $0 AIDS PROJECT OF SOUTHERN VERMONT INC
Melvyn Patashnick 2016 Former President & Ceo $0 $40,820 LAMOILLE AREA HOUSING CORPORATION THE
Jeff Ott 2014 2Nd Vice President $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Elizabeth Lindenberg 2016 Chair $0 $0 NORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL INC
Don Serino 2015 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Gene Clark 2016 Director $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Traci Griffith 2014 Board Member $0 $0 LEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
Steve Locke 2014 1St Vice President $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND DIVISION OF INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE

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.