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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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 R Butterly Md 2015 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICES
Lynn Frost 2015 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Mark K Foley 2015 Director Ending 4/2016 $0 $0 RUTLAND REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICES
Miriam Gee 2016 Board Member $0 $0 YESTERMORROW INC
Michael J Kenosh Md 2015 Director $0 $69,090 RUTLAND REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICES
Greta Brunswick 2016 President $0 $0 MAPLE LEAF MONTESSORI
Michael Burchfield 2016 Member Rep $0 $0 FAIRFAX EMS INC
John Nicholls 2016 Vice President $0 $0 MAPLE LEAF MONTESSORI
Mike Barriere 2015 Director $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Rebecca O'Berry 2016 Secretary $0 $0 RANDOLPH AREA FOOD SHELF
Marie Dunwoody 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 RANDOLPH AREA FOOD SHELF
Tim Wasilinski 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 FAIRFAX EMS INC
Carrie Germaine 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 FAIRFAX EMS INC
Sandi Isgro 2016 Trustee $0 $0 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF DOWSERS INC
Keith Schaffer 2016 Trustee $0 $0 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF DOWSERS INC
Richard Houghton 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC
Nancy Marnellos 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Richard Nessen 2015 Secretary $0 $0 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Paul Forlenza 2015 Director $0 $0 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Hank Louis 2016 Board Member $0 $0 YESTERMORROW INC
Ronna Ziegel Resigned 2016 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC
Stuart Edson 2016 President $0 $0 RANDOLPH AREA FOOD SHELF
Sharon Needham 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 RANDOLPH AREA FOOD SHELF
Chad Schmidt 2015 President $0 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Ken Tonnissen 2016 Pantry Opera $0 $0 RANDOLPH AREA FOOD SHELF

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.