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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Dennis Shillen 2013 Trustee HOMESTEAD INC
Llisa Demetrios 2013 Director CHARLES AND RAY EAMES HOUSE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC
Marc Ferro 2016 Trustee CHARLES P FERRO FOUNDATION
Vicky Vautour 2013 Secretary BRYAN MEMORIAL GALLERY FOUNDATION INC
Rabbi Michael Cohen 2016 Director EQUINOX PRESERVATION TRUST INC
Elizabeth A Ruane 2013 Trustee FOUR ANGELS FOUNDATION
Mary A Evslin 2013 President EVSLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Kelly Ruby 2013 Director EVSLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Tom I Evslin 2013 V.P. / Secretary EVSLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Louise Misasi 2014 Vp/Secy MISASI FOUNDATION INC
Nancy M Sluys 2016 President HARRIS & FRANCES BLOCK FOUNDATION
Richard F Spanier 2013 President LORD RUDOLPH SPANIER FOUNDATION INC
David Smith 2013 Trustee VERMONT CFIDS ASSOCIATION INC
Jessica Miller 2016 Admin. INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ETHNOBIOLOGY
Dan Wardell 2013 Director INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Judy Wicks 2013 Vice President BARRED ROCK FUND INC
Alain Cuerrier 2016 Treasurer INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ETHNOBIOLOGY
Verna Miller 2016 President INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ETHNOBIOLOGY
Lawerence N Kasser 2015 President STREAMWAY FOUNDATION TRUST
Rickstepp 2016 V President INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ETHNOBIOLOGY
Mary Stockdale 2016 Board Member INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ETHNOBIOLOGY
Migual Alexiades 2016 Board Member INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ETHNOBIOLOGY
Wendy G Rowland 2013 Secretary ROWLAND FOUNDATION INC
Richard Lord Esq 2013 Vice President VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM
Hartley Neel 2015 President VERMONT MOBILE IMAGING 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.