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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Albert Cicchetti 2014 Director THEODORE H CHURCH FOUNDATION INC
Rick Tobiason 2014 Trustee HOMESTEAD INC
Billie Audia 2013 Director SPORTS VENUE FOUNDATION
Alison Danly Lazear 2014 Director RISING PHOENIX FOUNDATION INC
Bruce G Danly 2014 Secretary & Director RISING PHOENIX FOUNDATION INC
Jack Hoopes 2013 Director SPORTS VENUE FOUNDATION
Andrea Reimann-Ciardelli 2013 President SPORTS VENUE FOUNDATION
Hans Brechbuhl 2013 Director SPORTS VENUE FOUNDATION
Susan Kirincich 2013 Director SPORTS VENUE FOUNDATION
Richard Synnott 2013 Executive Director SPORTS VENUE FOUNDATION
Dr Trudy Festinger 2014 Pesident MARION E KENWORTHY-SARAH H SWIFT FDN INC
Marclay Davis 2016 Vice President BRYAN MEMORIAL GALLERY FOUNDATION INC
Prudence B Shepard 2014 Dir SHEPARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Susan Conger 2016 Director BRYAN MEMORIAL GALLERY FOUNDATION INC
Dr Alice P Lin 2014 Vice Presi MARION E KENWORTHY-SARAH H SWIFT FDN INC
Horace L Shepard 2014 Dir, Treas SHEPARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Francis X Moriarty 2014 Dir SHEPARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Diane Szlachetka 2016 Director BRYAN MEMORIAL GALLERY FOUNDATION INC
Trust Company Of Vermont 2014 Trustee WILLIAM DEAN FAUSETT CHARITABLE TRUST
Jeff Lennox 2014 Secretary STRATTON MOUNTAIN SKI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
Micaela M Myers 2016 Executive Direc BRYAN MEMORIAL GALLERY FOUNDATION INC
Christopher Gannon 2014 Secretary & Director BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD OF VERMONT CARING FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC
Kimberly Ireland 2014 Vp,Sec&Direc S D IRELAND CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC
Scott D Ireland 2014 Pres & Director S D IRELAND CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC
Susan Lassiter 2016 President BRYAN MEMORIAL GALLERY 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.