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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lani Ravin 2016 Director $0 $0 SYNAGOGUE CORPORATION
Nancy Sugarman 2016 President $0 $0 SYNAGOGUE CORPORATION
Norman Grenier 2016 Deputy Chief $0 $0 CORNWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Jeff Alpert 2016 Vice President $0 $0 SYNAGOGUE CORPORATION
Andy Donaghy 2016 Director $0 $0 YOUNG AT HEART SENIOR CENTER INC
Steven Dimick 2015 Director $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Roxanne Scully 2016 Director $0 $0 ROZALIA PROJECT
Sylvie Lavoie-Finer 2016 Director $0 $0 ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
Bettyanne Mcguire 2016 Vice President $0 $0 ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
Lisabeth Maloney 2016 Secretary $0 $0 ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
Dennis Shillen 2016 Director $0 $0 ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
Nerissa Edwards 2016 Director $0 $0 ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
Ron Jaynes 2016 Director $0 $0 ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
Helen Norton 2016 Director $0 $0 ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
Susan Copeland 2016 Director $0 $0 ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
Lisa Burrell 2016 Director $0 $0 ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
Jeff Dillon 2016 Director $0 $0 ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
R Michael Murray 2016 Director $0 $0 CATV INC
Barbara Krinitz 2016 Director $0 $0 CATV INC
Linda Carbino 2016 Director $0 $0 CATV INC
Signe Taylor 2016 Director $0 $0 CATV INC
Karen Liott-Hill 2016 Director $0 $0 CATV INC
Peggy Allen 2016 Director $0 $0 CATV INC
Carol Dawes 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT ADULT BASIC EDUCATION INC
Marcy Waterfall 2016 Secretary & Director $0 $0 ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS INSURANCECOMPANY

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.