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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Catherine Kalkstein 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF COURT DIVERSION PROGRAMS INC
Nicholas Antell 2017 Board Member $0 $0 PB AND J INC
Jefferey Kolok 2015 President & Ceo $0 $0 SLAMT1D INC
Beth Tanzman 2015 President $0 $0 ALYSSUM INC
Mark Roden 2017 President $0 $0 WINDSOR COUNTY BOARD OF REALTORS INC
Chandar Hall 2015 Vice President $0 $0 ALYSSUM INC
Amy Wales 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 ALYSSUM INC
Donarae Dawson 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COUNCIL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION ADMINISTRATORS INC
Linda Syth 2016 Director $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CAPTIVE INSURANCE EDUCATION INC
Nancy Turner 2016 President $0 $0 THE GLOBAL DIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
Will Eberle 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 ALYSSUM INC
Karen Bixler 2015 Director $0 $0 ALYSSUM INC
Brian Keith 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF COURT DIVERSION PROGRAMS INC
Hilary Melton 2015 Director $0 $0 ALYSSUM INC
Dr John R Stepp 2016 Secretary $0 $0 THE GLOBAL DIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
Ellen Kane 2016 Secretary/Executive Director $0 $0 VERMONT CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
Darcie Houck 2016 Board Member $0 $0 THE GLOBAL DIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
Eli Martin 2015 Director $0 $0 ALYSSUM INC
Lou Cherry 2015 Director $0 $0 ALYSSUM INC
Leitha Cipriano 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF COURT DIVERSION PROGRAMS INC
Norma Ketay Asnes 2016 Board Member $0 $0 THE GLOBAL DIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
David Wolk 2015 Director $0 $0 NORTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE INCORPORATED
Marty Strange 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 RANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Sue Sherman 2014 Secretary $0 $0 RANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Evan Chismark 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT MOUNTAIN BIKE ADVOCATE 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.