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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Linda Henzel 2016 Board Member $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC
Joy Worland 2015 Secretary $0 $0 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LAB INC
Steve Ames 2015 President $0 $0 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LAB INC
Michele Childs 2016 Board Member $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC
Drew Arnott 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 MT MANSFIELD WINTER ACADEMY INC
Kate Lampton 2015 Board Chair $0 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Karen Saudek 2016 President $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC
George Deblon 2015 Grand Master $0 $0 MASONIC CHARITIES OF VERMONT INC
Theodore Corsones 2015 Grand Treasurer $0 $0 MASONIC CHARITIES OF VERMONT INC
Emily Wetherell 2016 Board Member $0 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC
Caroline Mortimer 2016 Secretary $0 $0 MT MANSFIELD WINTER ACADEMY INC
Jon Pizzagalli 2016 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Robert Donnelly 2015 Grand Secretary $0 $0 MASONIC CHARITIES OF VERMONT INC
Victor Stone 2015 Dept Gr Master $0 $0 MASONIC CHARITIES OF VERMONT INC
Russell Slora 2015 Depty Gr Treas $0 $0 MASONIC CHARITIES OF VERMONT INC
Cedric Smith 2015 Deputy Gr Sec $0 $0 MASONIC CHARITIES OF VERMONT INC
Richard Williams 2016 Sec./Treas. $0 $0 THE HOUSING FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
Robert Dostis 2016 Board Member $0 $0 THE HOUSING FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
Judy Waible 2015 Trustee $0 $0 GREENSBORO HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC
Virginia Jenkins 2015 Trustee $0 $0 GREENSBORO HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC
Mary Houghton 2016 Board Member $0 $0 THE HOUSING FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
Ashley Grove 2016 Director $0 $0 MT MANSFIELD WINTER ACADEMY INC
Stephanie Wernhoff 2016 Director $0 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Marion Burros 2016 Trustee $0 $0 STERLING COLLEGE
Frank Fitzpatrick 2015 Employee Rep $0 $0 GREENSBORO HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION 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.