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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Fred Bradley 2016 Vice President $0 $0 THE MENTOR CONNECTOR
Jane Stickney 2016 Family Suppo $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Elaine Nichols 2015 Chair $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Sharon Green 2015 Secretary $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Anne Clemens 2016 President $0 $0 VALLEY COURT DIVERSION PROGRAM INC
Walter Frame 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Willa Farrell 2015 Past Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Edward Butler 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC
Gina Kelley 2016 President $0 $0 THE MENTOR CONNECTOR
Carl Szlachetka 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Harry Miller 2015 Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Lucy Mckee 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC
Kathy Demars 2015 Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Jeff Taft-Dick 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC
Russell Kulas 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 THE MENTOR CONNECTOR
Stewart Pierson 2016 Restore Liai $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Derrick Davis 2016 Former Director $0 $0 HIGH MEADOWS FUND INC
Lynn Bushey 2015 Board Member $0 $0 COMMUNITY RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER INC
Sam Silverman 2015 Board Member $0 $0 COMMUNITY RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER INC
Tom Haley 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC
Libby Hillhouse 2015 Board Member $0 $0 COMMUNITY RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER INC
Bob Wilkins 2015 Board Member $0 $0 COMMUNITY RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER INC
Julie Raboin 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC
Carol Barbagallo 2016 Secretary $0 $0 THE MENTOR CONNECTOR
Robert Hersey 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 COMMUNITY RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER 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.