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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Carol Kopf 2014 Media Director $0 $0 AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH STUDIES PROJECT INC
Christine P Graham 2015 Secretary $0 $0 FUND FOR NORTH BENNINGTON INC
David Sagi 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ADULT LEARNING INC
Robert Howe 2015 Trustee $0 $0 FUND FOR NORTH BENNINGTON INC
Christina Frost 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT ADULT LEARNING INC
Tom Ayers 2015 Director $0 $0 CHITTENDEN COUNTY GOVERMENT ACCESS CHANNEL TRUST
Eric Peterson 2014 Secretary $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Marita Johnson 2016 President $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD AREA PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION
Dano Weisbord 2016 President, Director $0 $0 NINEVAH FOUNDATION
Janet Joseph 2016 Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Ginny Havemeyer 2014 Member $0 $0 COPLEY HOUSE INC
Mary Hurlie 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Rubin Bennett 2014 Vice President $0 $0 CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Elanor Ignat 2015 Director $0 $0 AUXILIARY OF PORTER MEDICAL CENTER,INC
Jon Valsangiacomo 2014 Private Sector Representative $0 $0 CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Anne Debevoise Ostby 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Michael Sherman 2014 Public Sector Representative $0 $0 CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Jennifer Wallace 2014 Public Sector Representative $0 $0 CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Donna Sherlaw 2014 Participant Sector Representative $0 $0 CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Susan Jacobs 2014 Participant Sector Representative $0 $0 CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Jay Isakson 2014 Participant Sector Representative $0 $0 CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Angela Gentley 2014 Participant Sector Representative $0 $0 CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Karen Ward 2014 Board Member $0 $0 HOWARDCENTER INC
Charlotte Ancel 2014 Board Member $0 $0 HOWARDCENTER INC
Becky Tucker 2016 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD AREA PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION

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.