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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Carl Symecko 2015 Vice Preside STRATTON MOUNTAIN SKI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
Julius Rosenwald Iii 2015 Trustee SOUTH MEADOW FOUNDATION
Jeff Lennox 2015 Secretary STRATTON MOUNTAIN SKI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
Richard Horigan 2015 Vice Preside STRATTON MOUNTAIN SKI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
Torin Koester 2015 Managing Trustee MCKENZIE FAM CHARITABLE TR
Thomas H Macleay 2015 Trustee MACLEAY FOUNDATION
Deborah Hatch 2015 Trustee SMITH-DENISON FOUNDATION
Elisabeth Wegner 2015 Trustee WEGNER FAMILY FOUNDATION
Julius Rosenwald Iii 2015 Tteesecy CHILMARK FOUNDATION
Meleda W Lowry 2015 Trustee WEGNER FAMILY FOUNDATION
Julia K Rosenwald 2015 Vice Chair CHILMARK FOUNDATION
Patricia Wegner 2015 Trustee WEGNER FAMILY FOUNDATION
Ingrid Broad 2015 Treasurer NELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Clea James 2015 President NELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Board Of Directors 2015 Director DANVILLE SCHOOL ENRICHMENT FUND INC
Episcopal Diocese Of Vermont 2015 Trustee BERKLEY-PALMER MEMORIAL ENDOWMENT F UND
Lucile Albero-Kocur 2016 Trustee ARNOLD M ALBERO MEMORIAL FUND
Elaine Albero-Moss 2016 Trustee ARNOLD M ALBERO MEMORIAL FUND
Francis X Moriarty 2015 Dir SHEPARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Mary L Crowe 2016 Director CROWE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Deborah S Rinner 2015 Dir SHEPARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Prudence B Shepard 2015 Dir SHEPARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Td Bank Na 2015 Trustee STEPHEN B COLLINS TRUST
Jonathan C Ingbar 2016 President/Director NARA FUND INC
Eric E Ingbar 2016 Director NARA FUND 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.