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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Norm Frates Jr 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Candace Coburn 2016 President $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Geoffrey Tabin Md 2016 Chairman $0 $0 HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
Meaghan Mclaughlin 2015 Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0 ELINOR SANCHEZ SUPPORTIVE HOUSING CORP
Larken Bunce 2016 Co-Director $0 $0 VERMONT CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVEHERBALISM
Mike Loner 2016 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TR
Dawn Francis 2016 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TR
John O'Brien 2016 President $0 $0 BELLWETHER PROJECTS INC
Sally Thursby 2016 Trustee $0 $0 SECOND WIND FOUNDATION
Debra Tiernan 2015 President $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY
Thomas Pour 2015 Cfo $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Jim Dicosimo 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Patricia Baer 2015 Committee Chair $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER AUXILIARY
Helen Long 2015 Committee Chair $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER AUXILIARY
Margaret Sheridan-Lefebvre 2015 Correspondence,Acting Secretar $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER AUXILIARY
Virginia Burleson 2015 Secretary $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER AUXILIARY
Constance Westfall 2015 Committee Chair $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER AUXILIARY
Jeanne Pizii 2015 Past President, Vice President $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER AUXILIARY
Jill Lowrey 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CSSU BUCCANEERS YOUTH FOOTBALL INC
Shelly Masson 2016 Vice President $0 $0 CSSU BUCCANEERS YOUTH FOOTBALL INC
Pam Niarchos 2016 Secretary $0 $0 CSSU BUCCANEERS YOUTH FOOTBALL INC
Chris Boffa 2016 President $0 $0 CSSU BUCCANEERS YOUTH FOOTBALL INC
Vanessa Long 2016 Secretary $0 $0 HILLTOP MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
Roy V Hill Ii 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LEGAL AID INC
Robert Appel 2015 V.P/Secretar $0 $0 VERMONT LEGAL AID 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.