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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Mary Tier 2016 Director $0 $0 WESTGATE HOUSING INC
Jennifer Wright 2016 Director $0 $0 WESTGATE HOUSING INC
Evelyn Pruiksma 2016 President $0 $0 ROCHESTER COMMUNITY CARE HOME INC
Madeline Benson 2016 Vice President $0 $0 ROCHESTER COMMUNITY CARE HOME INC
Diane Hanscom 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ROCHESTER COMMUNITY CARE HOME INC
Meg Hudson 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 ROCHESTER COMMUNITY CARE HOME INC
Geraldine Twitchell 2016 Member At Large $0 $0 ROCHESTER COMMUNITY CARE HOME INC
Linda Nelson 2015 Vice President $0 $0 VEPP INC
Carolyn Alderman 2015 Secretary $0 $0 VEPP INC
David Rubin 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION INC
Harlen Houghton 2016 Trustee $0 $0 ROCHESTER COMMUNITY CARE HOME INC
Rose Juliano 2016 Trustee $0 $0 ROCHESTER COMMUNITY CARE HOME INC
Carol Schwenk 2016 Trustee $0 $0 ROCHESTER COMMUNITY CARE HOME INC
Diane Teetsel 2016 Trustee $0 $0 ROCHESTER COMMUNITY CARE HOME INC
Nicole Carignan 2015 Trustee 4/8/2016 $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Robert Botjer 2015 Trustee (Rotated Off) $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
George Burrill 2015 Trustee $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Jon Wettstein 2015 Trustee 4/8/2016 $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Scott Carpenter 2015 Trustee $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Tom Cullins 2015 Trustee $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Laura Dagan 2015 Trustee $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Molly Dillon 2015 Trustee $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
James Dumont 2016 Board Member $0 $0 COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES OF ADDISON COUNTY
Christopher Heald 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 HARD ACK INC
Charles Lake 2016 Vice President $0 $0 SEALL 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.