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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
David H Ingbar 2016 Director / Secretary NARA FUND INC
F William Alley 2016 Treasurer THE WISDOM CONNECTION INC
Patricia Passmore Alley 2016 President THE WISDOM CONNECTION INC
Mary Parke Meyer 2016 Secretary THE WISDOM CONNECTION INC
Susan Coffey 2016 Director THE WISDOM CONNECTION INC
Tara Reynolds 2016 Exec Director THE WISDOM CONNECTION INC
Joseph Charbonneau 2015 Treasurer EQUINOX PRESERVATION TRUST INC
John H Lavelle 2015 Director POLLIO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Robert Sloan 2015 Trustee THE MARVIN L AND NORMA J HATHAWAY FOUNDATION
Lynn H Bortree 2015 Trustee THE MARVIN L AND NORMA J HATHAWAY FOUNDATION
Norma Hathaway 2015 Trustee THE MARVIN L AND NORMA J HATHAWAY FOUNDATION
Kathleen Lisai 2015 Director-Tru GEORGE A DASCOMB CHARITABLE EXEMPT TRUST
Paul M Hannan 2015 Trustee LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
Joseph L Pollio Jr 2015 Pres/Chairman POLLIO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
John S Lutz 2016 Vice-Pres OAKLAND FOUNDATION
Athey Lutz 2016 Secretary OAKLAND FOUNDATION
Alfred H Link 2015 Secretary/Tr LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
Betty Manganiello 2015 Secretary EQUINOX PRESERVATION TRUST INC
Gary C Link 2015 President LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
Alexandra Schonbek 2015 Trustee ISAIAH 61 FOUNDATION
Glen A Wright 2014 Director ROBERT FLEMING & JANE HOWE PATRICK FOUNDATION
Alice J Schonbek 2015 Trustee ISAIAH 61 FOUNDATION
Jerry Greenfield 2015 Director JERRY GREENFIELD & ELIZABETH K SKARIE FOUNDATION
Rebecca L Wood 2015 Trustee LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
John E Mazuzan Jr 2015 Senior Director REDWALL FOUNDATION 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.