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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Larry Sills 2017 Director $0 $0 SILLS FAMILY FOUNDATION
Caitlin Steele 2017 Trustee $0 $0 ROWLAND FOUNDATION INC
Wendy G Rowland 2017 Chairman $0 $0 ROWLAND FOUNDATION INC
Michelle Simpson-Siegel 2016 President $0 $0 PARKS AND PLAZAS INC
Heidi Lynn 2017 Trustee $0 $0 ROWLAND FOUNDATION INC
James C Mooney 2017 Trustee $0 $0 ROWLAND FOUNDATION INC
Daniel B Rowland 2017 Trustee $0 $0 ROWLAND FOUNDATION INC
John A Shepard Jr 2017 Trustee $0 $0 ROWLAND FOUNDATION INC
Douglas Smith 2017 Non Voting P $0 $0 VERMONT FLIGHT ACADEMY INC
Brent Sargent 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT FLIGHT ACADEMY INC
Jason Grieff 2017 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT FLIGHT ACADEMY INC
Tyler Brown 2017 Executive Di $0 $0 VERMONT FLIGHT ACADEMY INC
Andrew J Hall 2017 President $0 $0 HALL ART FOUNDATION INC
Christine C Hall 2017 Secretary / Treasurer $0 $0 HALL ART FOUNDATION INC
David Tobey 2017 Vice President $0 $0 HALL ART FOUNDATION INC
Sir Norman Rosenthal 2017 Director $0 $0 HALL ART FOUNDATION INC
Emma Hall 2017 Director $0 $0 HALL ART FOUNDATION INC
Harry Philbrick 2017 Director $0 $0 HALL ART FOUNDATION INC
Maryse Brand 2017 Director $0 $0 HALL ART FOUNDATION INC
Joseph Thompson 2017 Director $0 $0 HALL ART FOUNDATION INC
Suzanne Hull-Parent 2017 Vice Chair $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE OPERA HOUSE AT ENOSBURG FALLS VT
Edith Hawksworth 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE OPERA HOUSE AT ENOSBURG FALLS VT
Matt Stebbins 2017 Secretary $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE OPERA HOUSE AT ENOSBURG FALLS VT
Tristan Bryce 2017 Director $0 $0 FRIENDS OF THE OPERA HOUSE AT ENOSBURG FALLS VT
Ned Houston 2017 Chair $0 $0 CRAFTSBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY 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.