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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Dimitri Economides 2016 Director $0 $0 ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION RISK INSTITUTE INC
Linda Chambers 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT INC
Tom Roell 2016 Chairman Of The Board Of D $0 $0 ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION RISK INSTITUTE INC
Roderick A Kyle 2016 President And Chief Execut $0 $71,768 ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION RISK INSTITUTE INC
Elizabeth Sightler 2016 President $0 $0 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT INC
Peter Silberfarb Md 2016 Director $0 $0 CENTER FOR WOODLANDS EDUCATION INC
David Hoeh Trustee 2015 Po Box 99, Belmont, Vt 05730 $0 $0 BLACK RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Bill Ashe 2016 Secretary $0 $0 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT INC
Elizabeth Malone 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT ACCESS NETWORK INC
Dicken Crane 2016 Director $0 $0 CENTER FOR WOODLANDS EDUCATION INC
Ted Mable 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT INC
Dennis Frechette 2016 Chairman $0 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Bob Franzoni 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ACCESS NETWORK INC
Gabriel Desautels 2016 Secretary $0 $0 LUC GATES FOUNDATION INC
Laura Caputo 2016 Treasurer/Se $0 $0 WELLSPRING INSTITUTE INC
Sarah Houston 2016 Vice-Preside $0 $0 WELLSPRING INSTITUTE INC
Robert Bick 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT INC
Bruce Berryman 2015 Vice President $0 $0 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
Leslie Lindquist 2015 Rescue Chief $0 $14,121 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE FIRE AND RESCUE INC
Esther Cowles 2016 Director $0 $0 CENTER FOR WOODLANDS EDUCATION INC
Erik Haversang 2015 Fire Chief $0 $7,174 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE FIRE AND RESCUE INC
Patrick Gallivan 2015 Director $0 $21,914 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE FIRE AND RESCUE INC
Mary Jane Russell 2015 Treasurer $0 $30,510 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE FIRE AND RESCUE INC
Gary G Breton Esq 2015 Director $0 $0 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE FIRE AND RESCUE INC
Catriana Reyes 2016 Trustee $0 $0 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION

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.