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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Michael Harvey 2013 Treasurer VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM
Jeffrey Berwick 2013 Director VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM
Cindy Fuller 2013 Treasurer SEVENTH GENERATION FOUNDATION INC
Seth Masia 2013 Director INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Maurice Lamothe 2013 Director VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM
Jon Corbett 2015 Treasurer INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ETHNOBIOLOGY
Kevin Gaffney 2013 Director VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM
Daniel Gauthier 2013 Director VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM
Wolf Kahn 2013 President WOLF KAHN AND EMILY MASON FOUNDATION INC
Emily Mason 2013 Vice President WOLF KAHN AND EMILY MASON FOUNDATION INC
Einar Sunde 2013 Secretary INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Debby Mcclenahan 2013 Vice President INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
John Fry 2013 President INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Jake Hoeschler 2013 Director INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Ben Cohen 2013 Chairman BARRED ROCK FUND INC
Wini Jones 2013 Director INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
James S Sligar 2013 Secretary JACKSON HOLE PRESERVE INC
Bobo Kadiri Serge 2015 Regional Rep INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ETHNOBIOLOGY
Allison Pobrislo 2013 Director INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Dick Cutler 2013 Director INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Douglas Horne 2013 Trustee JACKSON HOLE PRESERVE INC
James C Mooney 2013 Trustee ROWLAND FOUNDATION INC
Charles W Scranton 2013 Ex Dir/Trustee ROWLAND FOUNDATION INC
David A Donath 2013 Trustee JACKSON HOLE PRESERVE INC
John A Shepard Jr 2013 Trustee ROWLAND 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.