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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Meleda W Lowry 2013 Trustee WEGNER FAMILY FOUNDATION
John Replogle 2013 Director SEVENTH GENERATION FOUNDATION INC
Ashley Orgain 2013 Executive Director/ Presid SEVENTH GENERATION FOUNDATION INC
Heather Dodge 2013 Director SEVENTH GENERATION FOUNDATION INC
Jeffrey Berwick 2016 Director VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM
Cyndy Shaw Senecal 2014 Secretary MOUNT LAUREL FOUNDATION INC
Patty Mcgrath 2013 Director SEVENTH GENERATION FOUNDATION INC
Heather Beach 2013 Director SEVENTH GENERATION FOUNDATION INC
Cara Bondi 2013 Director SEVENTH GENERATION FOUNDATION INC
Robert Brandon 2013 Sec/Dir ADA BRANDON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
Robert W Denison 2016 Trustee SMITH-DENISON FOUNDATION
Robert Stiller 2013 Secretary/Director STILLER FAMILY FOUNDATION
Christine Stiller 2013 President/Director STILLER FAMILY FOUNDATION
Stephen Magowan 2013 Assistant Secretary STILLER FAMILY FOUNDATION
Robert F Shannon 2013 Pres/Secreta FOURTH CORNER FOUNDATION INC
Marc Ferro 2013 Trustee CHARLES P FERRO FOUNDATION
Marianne Ferro 2013 Co-Executive Directo CHARLES P FERRO FOUNDATION
Bonnie Ferro 2013 Co-Executive Directo CHARLES P FERRO FOUNDATION
Jennifer Ferro Lessieu 2013 Trustee CHARLES P FERRO FOUNDATION
Damaris Keiser Westcott 2013 Director HAMMOND CHAPMAN FOUNDATION FOR YESTERDAYS LIVING LTD
Angela Keiser 2013 Director HAMMOND CHAPMAN FOUNDATION FOR YESTERDAYS LIVING LTD
Gary Bowen 2013 Executive Di HAMMOND CHAPMAN FOUNDATION FOR YESTERDAYS LIVING LTD
Erik Hanson 2013 Co-Vice Pres HAMMOND CHAPMAN FOUNDATION FOR YESTERDAYS LIVING LTD
Florance Romanov 2013 President HAMMOND CHAPMAN FOUNDATION FOR YESTERDAYS LIVING LTD
Cyndy Shaw Senecal 2013 Secretary MOUNT LAUREL 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.