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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Carol Barbagallo 2015 Director $0 $0 THE MENTOR CONNECTOR
Polly Nichol 2016 Member $0 $0 JERI HILL HOUSING CORPORATION
Monique Braman 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHILDREN S ALLIANCE INC
Hannah Handloff 2017 2016 Vp Housing $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Beth Stanway 2016 Director $0 $0 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Katie Meisinger 2015 Past-President $0 $0 THE MENTOR CONNECTOR
Michael Chamberlain 2015 Sgt. At Arms $0 $0 VERMONT SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC C/O SHERRIFF GARY FORREST
Christopher L Davis 2016 Vice President $0 $0 JERI HILL HOUSING CORPORATION
William Bohnyak 2015 President $0 $0 VERMONT SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC C/O SHERRIFF GARY FORREST
W Samuel Hill 2015 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC C/O SHERRIFF GARY FORREST
James Chandler 2016 Member $0 $0 JERI HILL HOUSING CORPORATION
Karen Garbarino 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHILDREN S ALLIANCE INC
Roger Marcoux 2015 Vice President $0 $0 VERMONT SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC C/O SHERRIFF GARY FORREST
Peter Mallary 2015 Consultant $0 $0 SECOND WIND FOUNDATION
James Hester 2016 Member $0 $0 JERI HILL HOUSING CORPORATION
David Lodge 2015 Trustee $0 $0 SECOND WIND FOUNDATION
Susan Edwards 2016 Director $0 $0 OUR COURT
Veronica Rathgeb 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CHILDREN S ALLIANCE INC
Yael Koren 2017 2016 Vp Event Planning $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Carmen Derby 2015 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAYS OF VERMONT
Josie Harper 2016 President/Director $0 $0 OUR COURT
Nanci Gordon 2015 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAYS OF VERMONT
Tawnya Kristen 2015 Director $0 $0 UNITED WAYS OF VERMONT
Mike Haxton 2016 Director/Youth Tennis $0 $0 OUR COURT
Fred Saar 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT CHILDREN S ALLIANCE 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.