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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Rick Milliken 2013 Chair VERMONT CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC
William R Church 2015 President CHURCH FAMILY FOUNDATION
Joanne Church 2015 Secretary CHURCH FAMILY FOUNDATION
Tayo Skarrow 2014 Secretary PURPLE CRAYON PRODUCTIONS INC
Tim Church 2015 Treasurer CHURCH FAMILY FOUNDATION
Mark Saba 2013 Member VERMONT CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC
Marlo Dreissigacker Kohn 2013 Director THREE THIRTY THREE FOUNDATION INC
Bari Dreissigacker 2013 Director/Secretary/Treasur THREE THIRTY THREE FOUNDATION INC
J Michael Mckenzie 2014 Trustee MCKENZIE FAM CHARITABLE TR
Jamie A Alpert 2015 Trustee THE@LIONHEART CHARITABLE TRUST
Donna Goldberg 2014 Trustee SANDBHREAGH WILDLANDS SANCTUARY AND TR
Lynn Williams 2015 Vice President ARLINGTON COMMUNITY PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING SERVICE INC
Melisse H Pinto 2014 Trustee DR MARTIN & EDITH L HOROWITZ MEMORIAL FUND
Ed Mcmahon 2014 Director THE ORTON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Ashley Lincoln 2013 Vice President LAMSON HOWELL FOUNDATION INC
Sherry Ristau 2014 Director THE ORTON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Steven Dimick 2013 President LAMSON HOWELL FOUNDATION INC
Thomas R Willits 2013 Co-Trustee LYDIA B STOKES FOUNDATION
Torin Koester 2014 Managing Trustee MCKENZIE FAM CHARITABLE TR
Pete Howe 2014 Director CENTRAL VERMONT MILK PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
Scott D Ireland 2016 Pres & Director S D IRELAND CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC
Kimberly Ireland 2016 Vp,Sec&Direc S D IRELAND CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC
Nancy V Deren 2013 Co-Trustee LYDIA B STOKES FOUNDATION
Thalia Venerable 2013 Co-Trustee LYDIA B STOKES FOUNDATION
David C Blittersdorf 2016 President JAN & DAVID BLITTERSDORF 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.