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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Sarah Pinneo 7114-82814 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Paula Samper Salazar 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 WOMENS LINK WORLDWIDE INC
Julie Geoghegan 7114-82814 2014 Board Chair $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Melanie Sheehan 2014 Secretary $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Effie Brown 2016 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM HUMAN SERVICES INC
Kevin Anderson 2015 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CARE SYSTEMS INC
Keith Milone 82914-63015 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Kathy Benson 2015 Past Treasurer $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CARE SYSTEMS INC
Susan Meisel 2015 Chairman $0 $0 WOMENS LINK WORLDWIDE INC
Steve Silver 2014 Board Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Jim Rumrill 2015 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CARE SYSTEMS INC
George S Norfleet Iii 2015 Past Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CARE SYSTEMS INC
Patricia Viseur Sellers 2015 Board Member $0 $0 WOMENS LINK WORLDWIDE INC
Michael Batsimm Started 42017 2016 Director Of Finance $0 $0 LUND FAMILY CENTER INC
Todd White 2015 Board Member $0 $0 ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Susan Abbott 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Paul Bengtson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM HUMAN SERVICES INC
Kendra Colburn 2016 Director $0 $0 COVER HOME REPAIR INC
Tracy Prentiss 2016 Vice President $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTSINC
Eddie Ortiz 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 OVERLAKE DAY SCHOOL INC
George Lamb 2015 Vice Chairperson $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CARE SYSTEMS INC
Crystal Stokarski 2015 Past Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CARE SYSTEMS INC
Jeff Hall 2014 2Nd Vice $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Carmen Oliart 2015 Board Member $0 $0 WOMENS LINK WORLDWIDE INC
Bob Flint 2015 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CARE SYSTEMS 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.