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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Harriet Deverry 2016 Treasurer STRATTON MOUNTAIN SKI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
Robert Bacon 2016 Director STRATTON MOUNTAIN SKI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
Frank L Misasi 2013 Vp MISASI FOUNDATION INC
Bruce Mccullough 2013 Director VERMONT MOBILE IMAGING INC
David H Ingbar 2013 Director NARA FUND INC
Frank L Misasi 2014 Vp MISASI FOUNDATION INC
Thomas R Willits 2015 Co-Trustee LYDIA B STOKES FOUNDATION
Jim Mcqueston 2013 Trustee OM FISHER HOME INC
Kathy Thurston 2013 Business Mgr OM FISHER HOME INC
Donald W Grigg 2013 Trustee S & C HARVEST FOUNDATION INC
Les Kozerowitz 2013 Dir SHEPARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Bruce G Danly 2013 Secretary & Director RISING PHOENIX FOUNDATION INC
Stephen Dickens 2013 Director HEARTSFIRE FOUNDATION INC
Jamie A Alpert 2013 Trustee THE@LIONHEART CHARITABLE TRUST
Maggie Leugers 2013 Director COMMON GROUND CENTER INC
Nancy Hope Wilson 2013 Director JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
Adelbert A Ames Iii 2013 Vice President JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
Verrall A Keelan 2013 Chairman KEELAN FAMILY FOUNDATION
Scott O'Connell 2013 Director MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC
Thalia Venerable 2015 Co-Trustee LYDIA B STOKES FOUNDATION
Jean Freebern 2015 President ARLINGTON COMMUNITY PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING SERVICE INC
Craig Bingham 2013 Treasurer COLUMBUS SMITH ESTATE TRUST INC
Louise Misasi 2013 Vp/Secy MISASI FOUNDATION INC
Gilbert Myers Esq 2016 Clerk PATERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Jennifer Samuelson 2016 Director EQUINOX PRESERVATION TRUST 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.