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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Marylou Razza 2016 Director $0 $0 VALLEY ARTS FOUNDATION INC
Carolyn Cooke 2016 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Laura Chadwick 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Susan Ritz 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Mary Anne Sjoblom 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Craig Nolan 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Linda Markin 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Christa Shute 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Nancy Chiquoine 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Barbara Murphy 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Steve M Gold 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Polly Nichol 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Amy Wright 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Faith Brown 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Holly Sanders 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Kenneth Becker 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Jeb Spaulding 2016 Director $0 $0 VSC FOUNDATION INC
Christopher Turley 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Brian L Maddy 2016 President & Director $0 $79,693 ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS INSURANCECOMPANY
Marcy Waterfall 2016 Secretary & Director $0 $0 ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS INSURANCECOMPANY
David Teague 2016 Board Chairman $0 $93,814 ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS INSURANCECOMPANY
Kenneth D Rowe 2016 Director $0 $67,174 ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS INSURANCECOMPANY
Ondria C Gleason Md 2016 Director $0 $94,230 ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS INSURANCECOMPANY
Lynn Mitchell Md 2016 Director $0 $55,924 ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS INSURANCECOMPANY
Bret Hodgdon 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

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.