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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Susan Yuan - Resigned In 2016 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT FEDERATION OF FAMILIES FOR CHILDRENS MENTAL HEALTH
Wm Blaine Hawkins 2016 Vice Chairman $0 $0 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Bob Van Degna 2016 Trustee $0 $0 SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INCORPORATED
Paul Carrara 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Larry Dwyer 2015 Secretary $0 $0 LYNDON SNO CRUISERS
Jennifer Hollar 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
Larry Costa 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Lisa Mitiguy Randall 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
Cynthia Stuart 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
Mary Maglione 2014 Board Member $0 $0 HOMELESS PREVENTION CENTER
Larz Barber 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Kristen Landerman 2014 2-Day Co-Chair $0 $0 PRESCHOOL AT FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC
Cher Langdon 2014 Director $0 $0 SOUL SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC
Peter Dalrymple 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Michael Krupa 2016 Past Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Aidan Altenor 2016 Vice President $0 $0 COPELAND CENTER FOR WELLNESS AND RECOVERY INCORPORATED
Philip Down 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Edward Zuccaro 2016 Director $0 $0 CAMPAIGN FOR VERMONT PROSPERITY INC
George Lewis 2014 President $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Leslie Keefe 2016 Trustee $0 $0 SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INCORPORATED
Tricia Elmer 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Jeanne Keller 2015 Co-Chair $0 $0 PROJECT HARMONY INC
John Gatti 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Melissa Carr 2015 Board Director $0 $0 PROJECT HARMONY INC
Lynn Jondahl 2015 Board Director $0 $0 PROJECT HARMONY 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.