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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Monique Priestly 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRADFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY
Emma Gibbs 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRADFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY
Kerry Coarse 2015 Board Member $0 $0 WONDERFEET KIDS MUSEUM
Arthur Mathisen 2016 President & Ceo $0 $3,914 COPLEY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Pamela Johnson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRADFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY
Judie Brower 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VILLAGE SCHOOL OF NORTH BENNINGTON
Michael Sommers 2015 Education Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHIROPRATIC ASSOCIATION
Chip Hellus 2016 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Jamey Ventura 2016 Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Keller Mckenzie 2016 Trustee $0 $0 THE CONVERSE HOME INC
Jim Mcdaniel 2015 Past President $0 $0 VERMONT CHIROPRATIC ASSOCIATION
Cory Pike 2015 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT CHIROPRATIC ASSOCIATION
Dave Correll 2016 Past Pres $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Windy Heyn 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHIROPRATIC ASSOCIATION
Erik Vose 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT CHIROPRATIC ASSOCIATION
Ray Duquette 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
David Silverman 2016 Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
John Tansey 2015 Secretary $0 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Alan Keiller 2015 Dh Representative $0 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Shane Keady 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Steven D Surgenor Md 2015 Trusetee $0 $58,338 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Matthew S Houde 2015 Dh Representative $0 $27,300 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Tony Lahoulier 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Joseph Subasic Md 2016 Trustee/Med. Staff President $0 $47,861 COPLEY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Marga Sproul 2016 Trustee $0 $0 THE CONVERSE HOME 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.