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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Amy Thebault 2015 Trustee $0 $0 MAPLE STREET FOUNDATION INC
Susan Boyle 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
David Pistilli 2016 President $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC
Harvey Robitaille 2015 Executive Co $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION CLUB NEWPORT-21 INC
Dave Christopher 2015 Director $0 $0 BROMLEY OUTING CLUB INC
Kevin Parizo 2016 Vice President $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC
Curt Cowles 2015 Director $0 $0 BROMLEY OUTING CLUB INC
Dorie Morgantini 2015 Director $0 $0 BROMLEY OUTING CLUB INC
Mr Lee P Hackett 2014 Trustee - President $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Paul Elmore 2014 Trustee $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC
Jacqueline Simpson 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Pam Roberts 2015 Director $0 $0 BROMLEY OUTING CLUB INC
Judson Hescock 2016 Secretary $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC
Bill Ballantyne 2014 Secretary $0 $0 WINDSOR IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION
Marcy Waterfall 2016 Secretary & Director $0 $0 ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS INSURANCECOMPANY
Jim Duddy 2015 Director $0 $0 BROMLEY OUTING CLUB INC
Nancy Hope Wilson 2017 Director $0 $0 JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
Rita Dessau 2015 Secretary $0 $0 WINOOSKI VALLEY PARK DISTRICT
Jeff Carpenter 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MIDDLEBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC
John Hilterbeitel 2016 Trustee $0 $0 RICHMOND LAND TRUST
Michelle Champoux 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Paul Heffernan 2015 President $0 $0 BROMLEY OUTING CLUB INC
Bill Haight 2015 Director $0 $0 BROMLEY OUTING CLUB INC
Edie Sawitsky 2014 Past President $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Ruth Kennedy Grant 2014 Board Member $0 $0 NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF 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.