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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Michelle Downing 2016 Director $0 $0 CALEDONIA-ESSEX AREA AMBULANCE
Chris Cole 2016 Board Member $0 $0 AMERICAN COUNCIL OF ENGINEERING COMPANIES OF VERMONT INC
Charles Hogan 2014 Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Joe O'Donnell 2014 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN ACADEMY FOR LIFE LONG LEARNING INC
Curtis Swan 2014 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Robert Banta 2015 Trustee $0 $0 DENNY FAMILY FOUNDATION
Tom Jackman 2016 Director $0 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Stephen Andrews 2016 Webmaster $0 $0 VERMONT PHARMICISTS ASSOCIATION
Charlene Seward 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 PURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC
Barry Poppel 2014 Director $0 $0 PURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC
Ben Whitehouse 2016 Director $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CAPTIVE INSURANCE EDUCATION INC
Cynthia Moulton Former Sec 2016 Retired 10/2017 $0 $0 FOUR WINDS NATURE INSTITUTEINCORPORATED
Doug Hinkle 2014 Director $0 $0 PURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC
Stephanie Luce 2016 Secretary $0 $0 KOPKIND COLONY
Lynne Vezina 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT PHARMICISTS ASSOCIATION
Paulina Bendana 2014 Director $0 $0 PURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC
Barbara Tracy Carris 2014 Director $0 $0 PURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC
Heidi B Eldred 2016 Trustee $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Jen Fleckenstein 2014 Vice President $0 $0 PURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC
Robin Hall 2014 Director $0 $0 PURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC
Tom Lynch Past 2014 Director $0 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Steve Levine 2014 Director $0 $0 VOTE HEMP
James H Douglas 2016 Secretary $0 $0 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Paul Sofka 2014 Director $0 $0 PURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC
Kelly Griffin 2016 Director $0 $0 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT

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.