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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lisa Bloch 2014 President $0 $0 LATCHIS ARTS INC
Jenny Burtis 2014 Secretary $0 $0 LATCHIS ARTS INC
Shea Witzberger 2014 Secretary $0 $0 LATCHIS ARTS INC
Chris Axten 2017 Board Member $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION INC
Caroline Hollingsworth 2014 Trustee $0 $0 WATERFORD SPRINGS CORP
Robin Sweetapple 2014 Director $0 $0 LATCHIS ARTS INC
Ted Barrett 2014 Deputy Grand Knight $0 $0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
E James Walker 2014 President $0 $0 NATIONAL ELEVATOR BARGAININGASSOCIATION
Val Bonk 2016 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY INDUSTRIAL
Marguerite Janiszyn 2016 Director $0 $0 BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Anita Gervais 2016 Vice President $0 $0 ISLAND POND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
James R Lyne 2016 Vice Preside $0 $0 ROZALIA PROJECT
Hank Lambert 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Marita Johnson 2016 President $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD AREA PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION
John Conte 2014 Trustee $0 $0 MANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC
Moira Spivey 2014 Trustee $0 $0 MANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC
Gary Ameden 2014 Vice President $0 $0 MANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC
Ben Weiss 2014 President $0 $0 MANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC
Janet Joseph 2016 Director $0 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Frank Driscoll 2015 Vice President $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN ISLANDERS DEVELOPING ESSENTIAL RESOURCES
Mary Hurlie 2016 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Patrick Caecas 2016 Director $0 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY INDUSTRIAL
Elanor Ignat 2015 Director $0 $0 AUXILIARY OF PORTER MEDICAL CENTER,INC
Becky Tucker 2016 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD AREA PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION
Ben Marks 2015 Director $0 $0 AUXILIARY OF PORTER MEDICAL 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.