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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Dr John Roush 2015 Director $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Dr Jennifer Braaten 2015 Director $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Mr Kenneth Birkenholtz- Termed 1215 2015 Director $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Dave Hartnett 2016 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN COUNTY GOVERMENT ACCESS CHANNEL TRUST
Mr Kenneth Westphal 2015 Director $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Dr David Beckley 2015 Director $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Elaine Sopchak 2016 President $0 $0 CHITTENDEN COUNTY GOVERMENT ACCESS CHANNEL TRUST
Mr Ed Precourt 2015 Secretary/Director $0 $0 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Mrs Siri S Gadbois 2015 President/Director $0 $86,011 COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY
Howard Wooden 2016 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN COUNTY GOVERMENT ACCESS CHANNEL TRUST
Raphael Weisman 2016 Director $0 $0 SOUL SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC
Heba Albutairi 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WOMEN IN MEDICINE INC
Dennis Gallant 2016 Director $0 $0 SOUL SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC
Ginny Lyons 2016 Secretary $0 $0 CHITTENDEN COUNTY GOVERMENT ACCESS CHANNEL TRUST
Jaime Stevens Md 2016 Secretary $0 $0 WOMEN IN MEDICINE INC
Mike Mckenney 2015 Secretary $0 $0 PROJECT FEED INC
Kelli Corbeil 2015 President $0 $0 PROJECT FEED INC
Helen Riehle 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CHITTENDEN COUNTY GOVERMENT ACCESS CHANNEL TRUST
Jonathan Wilson 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 OTTAUQUECHEE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP
Bob St Pierre 2015 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION INC
Joan Cavallo 2015 President Elect $0 $0 VERMONT PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION INC
Sarah Mellinger 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
Tom Bochanski 2015 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION INC
Shaun Pickett 2015 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION INC
Allegra Carpenter 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL 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.