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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Carolyn Gregory 2015 Director $0 $0 PARAMOUNT CENTER INC
Joseph Lorman 2015 Director $0 $0 PARAMOUNT CENTER INC
Danielle Mosher 2015 Board Member $0 $0 SAMARITAN HOUSE INC
Paul Gallo 2015 Vice President $0 $0 PARAMOUNT CENTER INC
Mark Foley Jr 2015 President $0 $0 PARAMOUNT CENTER INC
Joan Mcginn 2015 Board Member $0 $0 SAMARITAN HOUSE INC
Edward Clark 2015 Director $0 $0 PARAMOUNT CENTER INC
John Hynes 2015 Individual $0 $0 LAKE MANSFIELD TROUT CLUB
Jamie Horton 2015 Member $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Sharon Bushor 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BURLINGTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP
Clara Lesch 2017 2016 Vp Membership $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Helen Riehle 2016 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INCORPORATED
Matt Swett 2015 Member $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Cynthia Barrette 2015 Member $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Jim Adler 2015 Member $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Sven Karlen 2015 Member $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Harry Tether 2015 Member $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Bea Edgar 2015 Member $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Amy Redpath 2015 Member $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Harry Dorman 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Michael Schirling 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
Catherine Dipalma 2017 2016 Vp Finance $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Terry Samwick 2015 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Al Blum 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Peggy Williams 2016 Chairperson $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO

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.