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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Heather Anderson 2017 Secretary $0 $0 STOWE YOUTH HOCKEY
Lori Tilgner 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 STOWE YOUTH HOCKEY
Brian Forrest 2017 Director $0 $0 STOWE YOUTH HOCKEY
Geroge Wheelwright 2017 Director $0 $0 STOWE YOUTH HOCKEY
Brett Loomis 2017 Director $0 $0 STOWE YOUTH HOCKEY
Tony Whitaker 2017 Director $0 $0 STOWE YOUTH HOCKEY
Matthew Frazee 2015 Board Treasu $0 $0 HOWARDCENTER INC
Chessie Roy 2017 Former Secretary $0 $0 STOWE YOUTH HOCKEY
Andrew Kneale 2017 Director $0 $0 STOWE YOUTH HOCKEY
Ellen Rc Pomeroy 2017 President/Trustee $0 $0 JACKSON HOLE PRESERVE INC
David A Donath 2017 Trustee $0 $0 JACKSON HOLE PRESERVE INC
Douglas Horne 2017 Trustee $0 $0 JACKSON HOLE PRESERVE INC
James S Sligar 2017 Secretary $0 $0 JACKSON HOLE PRESERVE INC
Willis Chip Stearns 2017 President $0 $0 SOUTHEAST VERMONT TRANSIT INC
Joel Bluming 2017 Board Member $0 $0 SOUTHEAST VERMONT TRANSIT INC
Wendy Harrison 2017 Secretary $0 $0 SOUTHEAST VERMONT TRANSIT INC
Marna Tulin Phd 2015 Board Member $0 $0 HOWARDCENTER INC
Steven Misasi 2017 Pres/Treas $0 $0 MISASI FOUNDATION INC
Louise Misasi 2017 Vp/Secy $0 $0 MISASI FOUNDATION INC
Frank L Misasi 2017 Vp $0 $0 MISASI FOUNDATION INC
Carl Brandon 2017 Pres/Director $0 $0 ADA BRANDON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
Robert Brandon 2017 Sec/Director $0 $0 ADA BRANDON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
Claudia Watts 2017 Board Member $0 $0 MAD RIVER VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS INC
Betsy Rathbun-Gunn 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT HEAD START ASSOCIATION INC
Marie Gilmond 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT HEAD START ASSOCIATION 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.