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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Zipf Jr Stephen A 2013 Trustee $0 $0 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Zien Jimmy H 2013 Executive Director $134,951 $12,153 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Zien Jimmy H 2015 Former Executive Director $163,509 $8,315 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Zien Jimmy H 2014 Executive Director (Term 2014) $161,472 $10,771 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Zibilla Lee Wolfe 2015 Secretary $0 $0 BOG CHAPEL
Zibilla Lee Wolfe 2016 Secretary $0 $0 BOG CHAPEL
Zibilla Lee Wolfe 2017 Director $0 $0 BOG CHAPEL
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt 2015 Newsletter Editor $0 $0 CHINESE LANGUAGE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION INC
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt 2017 Newsletter Editor $0 $0 CHINESE LANGUAGE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION INC
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt 2016 Newsletter Editor $0 $0 CHINESE LANGUAGE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION INC
Zheng-Sheng Zhang 2015 Journal Editor $0 $0 CHINESE LANGUAGE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION INC
Zheng-Sheng Zhang 2016 Journal Editor $0 $0 CHINESE LANGUAGE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION INC
Zhengsheng Zhang 2013 Journal Editor $0 $0 CHINESE LANGUAGE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION INC
Zhengsheng Zhang 2014 Journal Editor $0 $0 CHINESE LANGUAGE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION INC
Zev Kazati-Morgan 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER INC
Zemede Asfaw 2016 Board Member INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ETHNOBIOLOGY
Zemede Asfaw 2017 Board Member $0 $0 INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ETHNOBIOLOGY
Zel Larivee 2014 President $0 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY SPORTSMANS CLUB I
Zel Larivee 2013 President $0 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY SPORTSMANS CLUB I
Zel Larivee 2015 President $0 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY SPORTSMANS CLUB I
Zel Larivee 2017 President $0 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY SPORTSMANS CLUB I
Zel Larivee 2016 President $0 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY SPORTSMANS CLUB I
Zeke Davisson 2016 Executive Director $100,000 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
Zeke Davisson 2017 Executive Director $92,250 $546 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
Zeke Davisson 2015 Executive Director $51,923 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION

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.