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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Scott Hauge 2016 Vice Chairman $0 $0 VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INSTITUTE INC
Hugh Greeley 2016 Chairman $0 $0 VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INSTITUTE INC
Gus Speth 2015 Board Member - Until 10/2015 $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Marie Ridder 2015 Board Member - Until 10/2015 $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Perez Ehrich 2015 Board Member - Until 10/2015 $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Laurel Colless 2015 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Jake Holzscheiter 2016 Director $0 $0 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE VERMONT STATE
Jan Blomstrann 2015 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Luann Bennett 2015 Board Member $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Jonathan Lash 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Richard D Paisner 2015 Chair $0 $0 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Eathan Mcnaughton 2015 Vice President $0 $0 GALLERY AT THE VAULT INCORPORATED
Fredrick Norton 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MOUNT SNOW SKI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Jill Meyers 2016 President $0 $0 WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS NETWORK
Matt Dodds 2016 Director $0 $0 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE VERMONT STATE
Maryann Mcdermott 2015 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Daniel Mccoy 2015 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Elizabeth Malone 2015 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Rae L'Esperance 2015 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Lisa Hango 2015 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Fern Mercure 2015 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Gail Albertelli 2015 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Hank Lambert 2015 Vice Chairperson $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Stephen Doe 2015 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Kathleen Keenan 2015 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY 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.