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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Edisa Muller 2016 Co-Chair $0 $0 ONION RIVER EXCHANGE
Mark Young 2016 Director $0 $0 NORWICH UNIVERSITY APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTES LTD
William Doelger 2016 Chairman $0 $0 ONION RIVER EXCHANGE
Jessica Makris 2016 Board Member $0 $0 EDUCATIONAL PRAXIS INC
Robert Lindefjeld 2016 Director $0 $0 NORWICH UNIVERSITY APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTES LTD
Larry Wesneski 2016 Director $0 $0 NORWICH UNIVERSITY APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTES LTD
Terry Fuller 2016 Captain $0 $0 MANCHESTER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION
Jeetan Khadka 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Sarah Childs 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Christopher Lievense 2016 Board Member $0 $0 EDUCATIONAL PRAXIS INC
Malah Miller 2016 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA FARMERS MARKET INC
Ingrid Chrisco 2016 Director $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA FARMERS MARKET INC
Mary M Lee 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Kim Rabideau 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Russ Bennett 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Viki Zulkoski 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Jay Fayette 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Ravindra Kumar 2016 Board Member $0 $0 EDUCATIONAL PRAXIS INC
Noah Elbers 2016 Co-President $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO AREA FARMERS MARKET INC
Owen Milne 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Tom Brownell 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Atasi Das 2016 Board Member $0 $0 EDUCATIONAL PRAXIS INC
Ian Wyatt 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Mike Lane 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SPECTRUM INC
Jim Doherty 2016 Captain $0 $0 MANCHESTER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION

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.