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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Dody Fraher-Ruland 2016 Director $0 $0 REBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER BURLINGTON INC
Charlie Ferriera 2016 Director $0 $0 REBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER BURLINGTON INC
John Olson 2016 Director $0 $0 REBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER BURLINGTON INC
Joe Meccia 2016 Director $0 $0 REBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER BURLINGTON INC
Martin Humfeldt 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 HILLTOP MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
Luke Jenson 2016 Director $0 $0 REBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER BURLINGTON INC
David Mickenberg 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LEGAL AID INC
Morris Silver 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LEGAL AID INC
Steve Iams 2016 Board Chair $0 $0 HILLTOP MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
Donald Sawyer 2016 Service Officer $0 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Janet Green 2016 Clerk $0 $0 FARM & WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC
Tonya Oya Orme 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 FARM & WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC
William Piper 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LEGAL AID INC
Eric Fritz 2015 Board Member $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Greg Mauriello 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LEGAL AID INC
Steven Edgerley 2016 Director $0 $0 GOODRICH MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC
Steve Mason 2016 Director $0 $0 GOODRICH MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC
Denise Daigle 2016 Director $0 $0 GOODRICH MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC
Travis Shine 2016 Member At Large $0 $0 HILLTOP MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
George Bergen 2016 Vp $0 $0 SPECIALIZED COMMUNITY CARE
Dan Cox 2014 Co-Founder & Chair Emeritus $0 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Therese Ballou 2015 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND AREA FOODSHELF
John Holme 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT LEGAL AID INC
Sarah Hofmann 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LEGAL AID INC
Kim Lier 2016 Member At Large $0 $0 HILLTOP 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.