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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
William Nelson Phd 2014 Board $0 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK INC
Geo Honigford 2013 Wndsr Assoc Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Marilyn Hart Md 2014 Board $0 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK INC
David Johnston 2016 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT FILM & ARTS CO
Robert Clark 2016 Director $0 $0 NORTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE INCORPORATED
Hon John A Dooley Iii 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION
Warren Leon 2014 Executive Director $0 $23,662 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Anthony Vargo 2014 Chief Financial Officer $0 $10,162 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Andrew Brydges 2014 Chair $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Genelle Rankin 2016 Trustee (Rotated Off 6/2017) $0 $0 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Nancy Hope Wilson 2017 Director $0 $0 JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
Beth Alden 2016 Board Member $0 $0 LONG TRAIL SCHOOL INC
Suzanne Korosec 2014 Secretary $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Peter West 2014 Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Sarah Fisher Goad 2014 Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Khatera Aslami 2014 President $0 $0 COPELAND CENTER FOR WELLNESS AND RECOVERY INCORPORATED
Sarah Bourne 2014 Secretary $0 $0 COPELAND CENTER FOR WELLNESS AND RECOVERY INCORPORATED
Patti Bittney-Starke 2014 Board Member $0 $0 COPELAND CENTER FOR WELLNESS AND RECOVERY INCORPORATED
Lynn Mitchell Md 2015 Director $0 $54,396 ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS INSURANCECOMPANY
Bill Brim 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC
Gary Decarolis 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC
Joan Walsh 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC
Lizabeth Antonoff 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC
Robert Allen 2016 Director $0 $0 NORTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE INCORPORATED
Kayla Jardine 2016 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT FILM & ARTS CO

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.