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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Amy Wright 2016 Director $0 $0 SOUTH END COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION
Jeanne Blackmore 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC
Winthrop Conrad 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
Emily Mason 2014 Vice Co-Chair $0 $0 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
Tina Pollard 2016 Secretary $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Lou Hicks 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
Wolf Kahn 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
Willard Boepple 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
Steven J Manolis 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
David Marvin 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
Melissa Barker 2016 Lecturing Knigh $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Martha Chicaiza 2015 Member $0 $0 MEDLIFE
Maureen Pinger 2016 Member At Large $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILLARY
Lucie Fortier 2016 Vice President $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILLARY
Giselle Carino 2014 Board Member $0 $0 WOMENS LINK WORLDWIDE INC
Don Dickson 2016 Director $0 $0 SOUTH END COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION
Lori Nelson 2016 President $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILLARY
Julie Kay 2014 Board Member $0 $0 WOMENS LINK WORLDWIDE INC
Kenn Sassorossi 2016 Director $0 $0 SOUTH END COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION
Susan Meisel 2014 Board Member $0 $0 WOMENS LINK WORLDWIDE INC
Paula Samper Salazar 2014 Board Member $0 $0 WOMENS LINK WORLDWIDE INC
Sue Wetmore 2014 Director $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY AUDUBON SOCIETY
Marian Mcdonald 2014 Treasurer $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY AUDUBON SOCIETY
Robert Zapletal 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MAPLE STREET FOUNDATION INC
Grant Leibersberger 2016 Director $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER 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.