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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
John Irons Iii 2015 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND TROPICAL CONSERVATORY INC
Ethan Ready 2016 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Sally Cummings 2016 Director $0 $0 ETA HOUSE CORP OF DELTA DELTA DELTA
Lois Davis 2015 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND TROPICAL CONSERVATORY INC
Harry D Wilson Jr Md 2015 Director $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND TROPICAL CONSERVATORY INC
Bruce Bouchard 2016 Board Member $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
James M Hunter 2015 Vice President $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND TROPICAL CONSERVATORY INC
Mary Fuqua 2015 President $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND TROPICAL CONSERVATORY INC
Traci Moore 2016 Brd Member $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Roberta Jarvis 2016 Director $0 $0 ETA HOUSE CORP OF DELTA DELTA DELTA
Tom Heinrich 2016 President $0 $0 THE CONVERSE HOME INC
Julie Corliss 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Rassoul Rangaviz 2015 Cfo $0 $10,044 COPLEY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Arthur Mathisen 2015 President & Ceo $0 $651 COPLEY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Mary A Goulett 2016 Brd Mbr $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Melvyn Patashnick 2015 Past President & Ceo $0 $36,786 COPLEY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Charles Hogan 2015 Past Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Jerry Hansen 2016 Bd Member $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Sandy Willey 2016 Director $0 $0 ETA HOUSE CORP OF DELTA DELTA DELTA
Joseph Subasic Md 2015 Trustee/Med. Staff President $0 $33,144 COPLEY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Willa Farrell 2015 Past Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Brian Grady 2016 Bd Member $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Sue Hoxie 2016 Member At Large $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EXECUTIVES
Marji Graf 2016 President $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EXECUTIVES
Wayne Wilhams 2016 Bd Member $0 $0 RUTLAND REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 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.