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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Tom Roberts 2016 Director $0 $0 HIGH MEADOWS FUND INC
Mary Sullivan 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CARSHARE
Dorothy Reeve 2016 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE
Nancy Birge 2015 Trustee $0 $0 HEALTH CARE AND REHABILITATION SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT I
Chris Kiefer-Cioffi 2016 Secretary, Board Of Directors $0 $0 CREDIT UNION OF VERMONT
Michael Dolce 2016 Treasurer, Board Of Directors $0 $0 CREDIT UNION OF VERMONT
Emilye Pelow Corbett 2016 Secretary & Treasurer $0 $9,810 HIGH MEADOWS FUND INC
R Michael Abatiel 2016 Vice President Of Board Of Directors $0 $0 CREDIT UNION OF VERMONT
Justin Barnard 2015 Director $0 $0 MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CENTRAL VERMONT INC
Steve Simpson 2016 President $0 $0 NORTHEAST SLOPES INC
Andrew Savage 2016 Director $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CARSHARE
Julie Bond 2015 Director $0 $0 MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CENTRAL VERMONT INC
Dave Pellitier 2015 Secretary $0 $0 MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CENTRAL VERMONT INC
Donrussell 2016 Trustee $0 $0 PROCTOR FREE LIBRARY
Matt Mulligan 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CENTRAL VERMONT INC
Jonny Finity 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA
Bob Wannop 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CARSHARE
George Brisson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ADULT LEARNING INC
Tom Ayers 2015 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN COUNTY GOVERMENT ACCESS CHANNEL TRUST
Robert Howe 2015 Trustee $0 $0 FUND FOR NORTH BENNINGTON INC
Christina Frost 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ADULT LEARNING INC
Albert Curtis 2016 Trustee $0 $0 PROCTOR FREE LIBRARY
Christine P Graham 2015 Secretary $0 $0 FUND FOR NORTH BENNINGTON INC
Joseph G Mcgovern 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 FUND FOR NORTH BENNINGTON INC
David Sagi 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ADULT LEARNING 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.