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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Trust Company Of Vermont 2015 Trustee ROBERT J GREENE IRREV TR
John Mcmullen 2014 Officer JOHN A MCMULLEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
David C Blittersdorf 2015 President JAN & DAVID BLITTERSDORF FOUNDATION INC
Robert Harris 2014 Director R & R FOUNDATION INC
Julia Hausman 2015 Director R & R FOUNDATION INC
Jennifer Dube 2015 Board Members JAZZYS CHILDREN FUND
Lacey Paye 2015 Board Member JAZZYS CHILDREN FUND
Courtney Patterson 2015 Board Members JAZZYS CHILDREN FUND
Robert Harris 2015 Director R & R FOUNDATION INC
Marie E Hausman 2015 President R & R FOUNDATION INC
Nathaniel Hausman 2015 Director R & R FOUNDATION INC
Michael Birnbaum 2015 Director MATHEW & JOSEPHINE BIRNBAUM FOUNDATION
Mary Kn Heininger 2015 Director PATERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Gilbert Myers Esq 2015 Clerk PATERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Dennis Perrault 2015 Treasurer PATERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Adam L Alpert 2016 Trustee THE@LIONHEART CHARITABLE TRUST
Briar L Alpert 2016 Trustee THE@LIONHEART CHARITABLE TRUST
John Paterson Jr 2015 Director PATERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Scott Kohn 2015 Director THREE THIRTY THREE FOUNDATION INC
Raoul Birnbaum 2015 Director MATHEW & JOSEPHINE BIRNBAUM FOUNDATION
Joseph Blumstein 2015 Vice-President Director TILLIE AND WILLIAM BLUMSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Timmie Rome 2015 President, Treasurer Director TILLIE AND WILLIAM BLUMSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Mallory Rome 2015 Director TILLIE AND WILLIAM BLUMSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Julia Rogers 2016 Secretary VAN WALLINGHAM FOUNDATION
Kim Smith 2015 Vp WARNER HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS

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.

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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.