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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Zachary Hughes 2015 Board Member $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC
Amy Caffry 2015 Board Member $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC
Patricia Donehower Rn Msn 2016 Dir Adult Home Care $0 $0 VERMONT NURSES IN PARTNERSHIP INC
Rodney Mcphee 2017 Legal Council $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTRY CLUB INC
Eileen Blake 2015 President $0 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC
Renee Gecsedi Ms Rn 2016 Dir Ed & Prac Research $0 $0 VERMONT NURSES IN PARTNERSHIP INC
Karen Cormier 2014 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN PERFORMING ARTS INC
Walter Frame 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Anne Gallivan 2016 Director $0 $0 MOBIUS INC
Kelly Murphy 2015 Former Pres $0 $0 ASCUTNEY VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSOCIATION INC
Patricia Winstead-Fryrnphd 2016 Researcher Eval Cons. (Term Fy17) $0 $0 VERMONT NURSES IN PARTNERSHIP INC
Ken Bolio 2016 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN COUNTY FISH & GAME CLUB INC
James Gibbons 2016 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN COUNTY FISH & GAME CLUB INC
Susan Sommer 2015 Executive Director $0 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Kristina Weeks 2016 Board Member $0 $0 GARLAND SCHOOL INC
Carol Hodges Rn Msn 2016 Nursing Education Coordina $0 $0 VERMONT NURSES IN PARTNERSHIP INC
Mark Desarno 2016 Secretary $0 $0 CHITTENDEN COUNTY FISH & GAME CLUB INC
Frederick Gates 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CHITTENDEN COUNTY FISH & GAME CLUB INC
Steven Mason 2016 Chairman $0 $0 NEWPORT COMMUNITY JUSTICE CENTER INC
Nathaniel A Waite Rn Bsn 2016 Public Hlth Nurse Ii Vt Dept $0 $0 VERMONT NURSES IN PARTNERSHIP INC
Thomas G Cronin 2014 President $0 $0 SPRUCE PEAK ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC
Shelia Martin 2016 Secretary-Treasurer $0 $0 NEWPORT COMMUNITY JUSTICE CENTER INC
Jill Lord Rn Ms 2016 Vp Of Patient Care Services $0 $0 VERMONT NURSES IN PARTNERSHIP INC
Kevin D'Arcy 2014 Secretary $0 $0 SPRUCE PEAK ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC
Walter B Frame 2014 Secretary $0 $0 SPRUCE PEAK ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION 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.