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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Stephanie Beer 2016 Trustee ISAIAH 61 FOUNDATION
Eileen Schonbek-Beer 2016 Trustee ISAIAH 61 FOUNDATION
Jennifer Davison Smith 2016 Director ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Mary Zurn Herrera 2016 Secretary ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Alexandra Schonbek 2016 Trustee ISAIAH 61 FOUNDATION
Jeff Lennox 2013 Director STRATTON MOUNTAIN SKI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
Julius Rosenwald Iii 2013 Tteesecy CHILMARK FOUNDATION
Julia K Rosenwald 2013 Vice Chair CHILMARK FOUNDATION
Elizabeth Newberry 2013 Tteetreas CHILMARK FOUNDATION
Brian Lovegrove 2013 Director STRATTON MOUNTAIN SKI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
Norma Hathaway 2013 Trustee THE MARVIN L AND NORMA J HATHAWAY FOUNDATION
Jillian Shafer 2013 Secretary STRATTON MOUNTAIN SKI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
Carl Symecko 2013 Vice President STRATTON MOUNTAIN SKI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
Betsy Cetron 2013 Treasurer STRATTON MOUNTAIN SKI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
Nick Haslam 2013 Director VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM
Michael Baratoff 2013 President, Bod MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC
Charles W Grigg 2013 President S & C HARVEST FOUNDATION INC
Charlotte E Macleay 2013 Trustee MACLEAY FOUNDATION
Bruce Corrette 2013 Director VERMONT MOBILE IMAGING INC
Bruce T Link 2013 Trustee LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
Sten Lium 2013 Vice Preside VERMONT MOBILE IMAGING INC
Thomas H Macleay 2013 Trustee MACLEAY FOUNDATION
Roxanne Gioconda 2013 Secretary NARA FUND INC
Sarah R Oertly 2013 Treasurer OERTLY SURIANATA FAMILY FOUNDATION
Susan Coffey 2013 Board Member THE WISDOM CONNECTION 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.