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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Mary Zurn Herrera 2013 Secretary ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Reverend Maurice Roy 2016 Director ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Jane T Zurn 2013 President ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Bridget Zurn Garibay 2013 Treasurer ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Stephen D Cushing 2016 Director ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Mary Elizabeth Leroux 2016 Director ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Timothy Fisher 2015 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Norbert Yankielun 2014 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Prisca Nemapare 2016 Vice President $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Chris Hoskin 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Madelaine Daniel 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Nancy P Clark 2016 President $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Dawn Carey-Smith 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Jan Hebert 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Jennifer Edelstein 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Vicky Swenor 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Carola Lea 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Jacqueline Simpson 2015 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Jennifer Thomas 2017 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Wallace Smith 2015 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Jacqueline Simpson 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Michelle Champoux 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Susan Boyle 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
Meg Mclean 2015 Board Member $0 $0 ZIENZELE FOUNDATION
James Clark 2015 Treasurer/Secretary $0 $0 ZIENZELE 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.