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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jeanne Morrissey 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
Bob Quinn 2015 Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY WOODLANDS INC
Ted Kole 2015 Past Vice Chair $0 $0 COPLEY WOODLANDS INC
Bob Young 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Nanette Stevens 2015 Member $0 $0 LYRIC THEATRE COMPANY
Scott Mcardle 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Elizabeth Pearce 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
Lucy Terrien 2017 2016 Vp Member Development $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Margaret Welch 2015 Board Vice C $0 $0 LYRIC THEATRE COMPANY
Serena Magnan O'Connell 2015 Member $0 $0 LYRIC THEATRE COMPANY
Ted Adler 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Mark Levine 2015 Director $0 $0 VERMONT MEDICAL SOCIETY EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION
David Carter 2016 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC
Nicole Ravlin 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Dagyne Canney 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
Elizabeth Glenshaw 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Marsha Fonteyn 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Lamont Barnett 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
Sarah Lewis 2017 2016 Chapter President $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Sandra Rosa Bs Rph 2016 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INCORPORATED
Anne Mcmeniman 2015 Director $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE INC
Telos Whitfield 2015 Director $0 $0 GREATER FALLS WARMING SHELTER
Brad Robertson 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Emma Stewart 2015 Director $0 $0 GREATER FALLS WARMING SHELTER
Lisa Pitcher 2015 Director $0 $0 GREATER FALLS WARMING SHELTER

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.