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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Joann Howard 2016 Treasurer BRYAN MEMORIAL GALLERY FOUNDATION INC
Mary Kuhn 2013 Trustee PHOEBUS FUND
Lynn H Bortree 2014 Trustee THE MARVIN L AND NORMA J HATHAWAY FOUNDATION
Jeffrey B Lennox 2014 Settlor & Trustee LENNOX FAM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TR
Kathy Quimby Johnson 2016 Director BRYAN MEMORIAL GALLERY FOUNDATION INC
Thomas H Macleay 2014 Trustee MACLEAY FOUNDATION
Jennifer Carris Swetland 2014 Board Member HUNTINGTON TRACY FOUNDATION
Brian Lovegrove 2014 Director STRATTON MOUNTAIN SKI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
Briar L Alpert 2014 Trustee THE@LIONHEART CHARITABLE TRUST
R Tyson Smith 2013 Trustee PHOEBUS FUND
Chuck Henry 2016 Director BRYAN MEMORIAL GALLERY FOUNDATION INC
Norma Hathaway 2014 Trustee THE MARVIN L AND NORMA J HATHAWAY FOUNDATION
Select Board Of Sheffield Vt 2014 Directors KENISTON AND DANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
Julie Davis 2016 Director BRYAN MEMORIAL GALLERY FOUNDATION INC
Adam L Alpert 2014 Trustee THE@LIONHEART CHARITABLE TRUST
Elizabeth T Pollio 2014 Sec'Y/Director POLLIO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Betsy Cetron 2014 Treasurer STRATTON MOUNTAIN SKI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
Julia K Rosenwald 2014 Vice Chair CHILMARK FOUNDATION
Vicky Vautour 2016 Secretary BRYAN MEMORIAL GALLERY FOUNDATION INC
Board Of Directors 2014 Director DANVILLE SCHOOL ENRICHMENT FUND INC
Richard Horigan 2014 Vice Pres STRATTON MOUNTAIN SKI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
Jeffrey Parker 2014 Trustee SUNNINGDALE CHARITABLE TRUST
Carl Symecko 2014 Vice President STRATTON MOUNTAIN SKI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
Charles W Grigg 2014 President S & C HARVEST FOUNDATION INC
Fran Van Da Griff 2014 Executive Director HOMESTEAD 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.