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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Teri Lazzara 2015 Secretary JAZZYS CHILDREN FUND
John Mcmullen 2015 Officer JOHN A MCMULLEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
Jennifer Samuelson 2015 Director EQUINOX PRESERVATION TRUST INC
Kelly Ruby 2015 Director EVSLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Tom I Evslin 2015 V.P. / Secretary EVSLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Barbara Prentice 2016 Secretary OM FISHER HOME INC
Jarah Evslin 2015 Trustee EVSLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Kate Morris 2015 Director EVSLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Claudia Brosseau 2016 Treasurer OM FISHER HOME INC
David A Otterman Esq 2015 Trustee RONALD J YORK SCHOLARSHIP FUND
T Hunter Wilson 2015 President JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
Roger B Wilson 2015 Treasurer JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
Dawn Provost 2016 Executive Dir. OM FISHER HOME INC
Beverlee Hill 2016 Trustee OM FISHER HOME INC
Nora Wilson 2015 Secretary JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
William J Fisk 2014 President OLIN SCOTT FUND INC
Nancy Hope Wilson 2015 Director JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
Adelbert A Ames Iii 2015 Vice President JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
Phil Daniels 2014 Vice Chair VERMONT CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC
Robert Cummings Jr 2014 V. President OLIN SCOTT FUND INC
Charles Letourneau 2014 Secretary OLIN SCOTT FUND INC
Betsy Bishop 2014 Secretary VERMONT CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC
Steve Terry 2014 Treasurer VERMONT CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC
Leslie Mackenzie 2014 Director VERMONT CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC
Mark Ames 2015 Director JENCKES 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.