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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Zvi Szafran 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE INCORPORATED
Zora Jones Rizzi 2015 Trustee $0 $0 FARM & WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC
Zora Jones Rizzi 2016 Trustee $0 $0 FARM & WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC
Zora Jones Rizzi 2017 Trustee $0 $0 FARM & WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC
Zon Eastes 2013 Chair $0 $0 RIVER GALLERY SCHOOL INC
Zoltan Sachs 2015 President $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Zoltan Sachs 2017 President $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Zoltan Sachs 2013 President $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Zoltan Sachs 2016 President $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Zoltan Sachs 2014 President $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Zoe Newman 2014 Trustee $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN WALDORF SCHOOL
Zoe Newman 2013 Trustee $0 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN WALDORF SCHOOL
Zoe Hardy 2014 Director $0 $0 BURLINGTON MEALS ON WHEELS
Zoe Hardy 2015 Director $0 $0 BURLINGTON MEALS ON WHEELS
Zoe Hardy 2013 Director $0 $0 BURLINGTON MEALS ON WHEELS
Zoe Hack Keller 2016 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Zoe Hack Keller 2015 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Zoe Hack Keller 2014 Trustee $0 $0 THETFORD ACADEMY
Zoe Erdman 2014 Board Member $0 $0 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES
Zoe Erdman 2013 Board Member $0 $0 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES
Zoe Aicher 2016 Board Member - Chelsea $0 $0 CHELSEA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER
Zoe Aicher 2017 Board Member - Chelsea $0 $0 CHELSEA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER
Zirwat Chowdhury 2016 Director $0 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION
Zipf Jr Stephen A 2013 Trustee $0 $0 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Zipf Jr Stephen A 2014 Trustee $0 $0 ALOHA FOUNDATION 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.