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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Gil Livingston 2015 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Cathie Merrihew 2015 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Joan M Hagen 2014 Treasurer & Director $0 $37,343 OLD CRESCENT INSURANCE COMPANY
Walter Bruska 2016 Pres Emeritus $0 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Sen Diane Snelling 2014 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Carol Ellison 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY
Radetta Nemscosky 2015 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Nancy Reed 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ORANGE COUNTY DIVERSION PROGRAM
Julie Berger Pierson 2015 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
William Ballantyne 2016 Secretary $0 $0 WINDSOR IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION
Mary Ann Ledwith 2016 President $0 $0 STARBASE VERMONT INCORPORATED
Judith Deschaine 2015 President $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILLARY
Andrew Hendrickson 2015 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC
James Levins 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
Karen Geraghty 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY
Vanessa Kittell 2015 President $0 $0 VERMONT TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
Doug Griswold 2016 Director $0 $0 STARBASE VERMONT INCORPORATED
Adolfo Bezamat 2016 V President BEZAMAT FOUNDATION INC
David C Blittersdorf 2014 President JAN & DAVID BLITTERSDORF FOUNDATION INC
Katherine L Coppock 2015 President OAKLAND FOUNDATION
Alexandra Schonbek 2016 Trustee ISAIAH 61 FOUNDATION
Jane T Zurn 2014 President ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Jaime Mccutcheon 2016 Trustee LOCONTI FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST
Joseph D Loconti 2016 Trustee LOCONTI FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST
Dale Thompson 2015 Treasurer ESSEX CLASSICAL INSTITUTE

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.