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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Joe Staab 2015 Vice President $0 $0 BERLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
Rob Geiszler 2016 Director $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Bettie Bransfield 2015 Secretary $0 $0 BERLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
Scott Bagg 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 BERLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
Marc Mihaly 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
John Braun 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Pam Bailey 2015 Asst Treasurer $0 $0 BERLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
Louise Bonvechio 2016 President $0 $0 GILMAN HOUSING TRUST INC
Seleem Choudhury 2016 Interim Vp/Secretary $0 $0 GILMAN HOUSING TRUST INC
Ed Rearick 2015 Member At Large $0 $0 BERLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
Mark Perkell 2016 Vice President $0 $0 KIDS REHABGYM INC
Scott Campbell 2016 Director $0 $0 GILMAN HOUSING TRUST INC
Miles Silk Jr 2015 Director $0 $0 BERLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
Edward Mattes 2014 Past Chair $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Carolyn Bakken 2016 Secretary $0 $0 DRIFTDUSTERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC
Wendy Hysko 2015 President $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN LIBRARY CONSORTIUM
Kim Peine 2015 Secretary $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN LIBRARY CONSORTIUM
Stacey Hills 2016 Trustee $0 $0 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Owen Mcdermott 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN LIBRARY CONSORTIUM
Chris Kirby 2015 Board Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN LIBRARY CONSORTIUM
Lynne Klamm 2014 Director $0 $0 HOUSING TRUST OF RUTLAND COUNTY INC
Irvin Eisenberg 2014 Board Member $0 $0 ONION RIVER EXCHANGE
David Wolk 2016 President $0 $0 VSC FOUNDATION INC
Cindy Weber 2015 Board Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN LIBRARY CONSORTIUM
Dan Gosselin 2016 Director $0 $0 DRIFTDUSTERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB 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.