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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Joyce Bennett 2016 Secretary NORTHEASTERN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOC NEAA
Karly Birch 2015 Student Rep. INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ETHNOBIOLOGY
Anne Galvin 2016 Treasurer NORTHEASTERN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOC NEAA
Donna Carpenter 2014 Vp & Secretary MILL FOUNDATION LTD
Timothy Crowell 2014 Trustee ROBERT L CROWELL CHARITABLE TR
Charles Lacy 2013 Admin Trustee BEN COHEN CHARITABLE TRUST
Curtiss Hoffman 2016 President NORTHEASTERN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOC NEAA
Robin Wild 2015 Student Rep. INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ETHNOBIOLOGY
Daniel Gauthier 2016 Director VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM
Bennett R Cohen Co Ghp Advisors Pc 2013 Trustee BEN COHEN CHARITABLE TRUST
Walter Little 2016 President - NORTHEASTERN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOC NEAA
Alan L Hersker 2016 Past-Preside NORTHEASTERN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOC NEAA
Seth Brown 2016 Treasurer VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM
John Crowell 2014 Trustee ROBERT L CROWELL CHARITABLE TR
Sarah R Oertly 2014 Vice President OERTLY SURIANATA FAMILY FOUNDATION
April Cornell 2014 Director, President & Trea THE GIVING WORLD FOUNDATION INC
Rukiah S Oertly 2014 President OERTLY SURIANATA FAMILY FOUNDATION
April Cornell 2014 Fundraising Coordinator THE GIVING WORLD FOUNDATION INC
Td Bank Na 2014 Trustee STEPHEN B COLLINS TRUST
Donald R Hollis 2014 Trustee THE HOLLIS FAMILY FOUNDATION DTD 12-28-1999
Judy Wiger 2013 Director WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC
Sarah R Oertly 2014 Secretary OERTLY SURIANATA FAMILY FOUNDATION
Barbara Yerrick 2013 Secretary WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC
Richard Feeser 2014 Director THEODORE H CHURCH FOUNDATION INC
David A Otterman 2014 Trustee ELIZABETH M CAMPBELL LIBRARY TRUST FUND

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.