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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Clare Goldman 2016 Trustee $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Kristin Winer 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB CHARITIES OF ESSEX VERMONT INC
Jean Ashe 2015 Secretary $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB CHARITIES OF ESSEX VERMONT INC
Marie Lapenta Rn Svmc 2016 Director $0 $0 SOUTHERN VERMONT AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC
Betty Poulin 2015 Vice President $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB CHARITIES OF ESSEX VERMONT INC
Nancy Freeze 2015 President $0 $0 ROTARY CLUB CHARITIES OF ESSEX VERMONT INC
Kathy Shuster Rn 2016 Director $0 $0 SOUTHERN VERMONT AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC
Patty Grassette 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Danny Ballentine Pa 2016 Director $0 $0 SOUTHERN VERMONT AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC
Roxanne Karter Aprn 2016 Director $0 $0 SOUTHERN VERMONT AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC
Gloria Washburne 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Tracy Quigley 2016 Chair Officer $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Michael Krupa 2015 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Sherry Willumitus 2016 Director $0 $0 SOUTHERN VERMONT AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC
Daniel Normandeau 2015 Assistant Secretary $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Patricia O'Donnell 2015 Past Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Edward Flower Dmin 2016 Secretary $0 $0 SOUTHERN VERMONT AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC
Carole Cole 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Bette Abrams 2015 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Joshua Dufresne Mba 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 SOUTHERN VERMONT AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC
Melissa Weinstein 2015 Board Member $0 $0 THETFORD AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM INC
Angela Spickard 2015 Board Member $0 $0 THETFORD AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM INC
Dale Farrar 2015 Resident Board Member $0 $0 VETERANS PLACE INC
Paul Langevin 2016 Vice President $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Steve Marinelli 2016 Member $0 $0 MILTON COMMUNITY YOUTH COALITION 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.