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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Mallory Rome 2014 Director TILLIE AND WILLIAM BLUMSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
William J Fisk 2015 President OLIN SCOTT FUND INC
Narric Rome 2014 Secretary Director TILLIE AND WILLIAM BLUMSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Charles Letourneau 2015 Secretary OLIN SCOTT FUND INC
Robert Cummings Jr 2015 V. President OLIN SCOTT FUND INC
Joseph Blumstein 2014 Vice-President Director TILLIE AND WILLIAM BLUMSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Scott C Kane 2014 Secretary R L KANE FAMILY FOUNDATION
Deborah Choma 2014 Director COLUMBUS SMITH ESTATE TRUST INC
Fran Fraga 2014 Treasurer COLUMBUS SMITH ESTATE TRUST INC
Debra Young 2014 Secretary COLUMBUS SMITH ESTATE TRUST INC
Michael Birnbaum 2014 Director MATHEW & JOSEPHINE BIRNBAUM FOUNDATION
Charles W Grigg 2016 President S & C HARVEST FOUNDATION INC
Ward T Kane 2014 Treasurer R L KANE FAMILY FOUNDATION
Julia H Geer 2013 Director & Secretary/Treas CONCRETE FOUNDATION INC
Sheldon Miller 2013 It & Marketing CONCRETE FOUNDATION INC
Laura L Kane 2014 Vice-President R L KANE FAMILY FOUNDATION
Donald W Grigg 2016 Trustee S & C HARVEST FOUNDATION INC
Shirley T Kane 2014 President R L KANE FAMILY FOUNDATION
Charles Dolan 2014 Vice - President PURPLE CRAYON PRODUCTIONS INC
Laurie Callahan 2013 Vice Chair VERMONT CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC
Christine Meyer 2014 Treasurer ARLINGTON COMMUNITY PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING SERVICE INC
Mary Ann Schaefer 2014 Secretary ARLINGTON COMMUNITY PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING SERVICE INC
Jean Freebern 2014 President ARLINGTON COMMUNITY PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING SERVICE INC
Kathleen Dolan 2014 President/Treasurer PURPLE CRAYON PRODUCTIONS INC
John Boutin 2013 Member VERMONT CHAMBER 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.