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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Guy Isabelle 2015 Chairman $0 $0 GRANITE CITY HOUSING INC
Tim O'Neill 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 GILMAN HOUSING CORPORATION
Todd Washburne 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
David Oles 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 GRANITE CITY HOUSING INC
Allan Heath 2015 Director $0 $0 GRANITE CITY HOUSING INC
Seleem Choudhury 2016 Interim Vp/Secretary $0 $0 GILMAN HOUSING CORPORATION
Maureen Morton 2015 Secretary $0 $0 GRANITE CITY HOUSING INC
Amanda Bergeron 2015 Director $0 $0 GRANITE CITY HOUSING INC
Louise Bonvechio 2016 President $0 $0 GILMAN HOUSING CORPORATION
Donna Wescom 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Louise Rauh 2016 Secretary $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY SERVICES INC
Alida Duncan 2015 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITIUTE INC
Scott Richards 2016 Director $0 $0 SOUTHERN VERMONT AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC
Evan Fitzgerald 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITIUTE INC
Michele Patton 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
Nicole Goswami 2016 Vice President $0 $0 SOUTHERN VERMONT AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC
Joseph L Pollio Jr 2017 Pres/Chairma $0 $0 POLLIO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Chuck Regula 2015 Secretary $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS
Kate Mcginn 2016 President $0 $0 SOUTHERN VERMONT AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC
Andy Love 2015 Director $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB CHARITIES OF ESSEX VERMONT INC
Sharon Dettenrieder 2015 Director $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB CHARITIES OF ESSEX VERMONT INC
Kim Zoe Potter 2017 Director $0 $0 WINDSOR COUNTY BOARD OF REALTORS INC
John H Lavelle 2017 Director $0 $0 POLLIO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Ron Poe 2016 Vice President $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY SERVICES INC
Clare Goldman 2016 Trustee $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE

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.