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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kirk Williams 2013 Vice President PHILIP S HARPER FOUNDATION
Anne Harper 2013 President PHILIP S HARPER FOUNDATION
Cynthia Jerome 2013 Administrator HOLTON HOME INC
Caryll Hanbury 2013 Director KEAL FOUNDATION
Madhurii E Barefoot 2013 0 P C MORRELL FAMILY FOUNDATION
Peter D Carvell 2013 Vice President HOLTON HOME INC
Cindy Jerome 2013 Executive Dir. HOLTON HOME INC
Kate O'Connor 2013 Director HOLTON HOME INC
Richard E Tarrant 2016 Director RICHARD E AND DEBORAH L TARRANT FOUNDATION INC
Luzi Hitz 2013 Director INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Kim Jerome 2013 Director KEAL FOUNDATION
Joni R Zweig 2013 0 P C MORRELL FAMILY FOUNDATION
Russell F Housman 2013 President ROBERTA AND RUSSELL HOUSMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
Shirley T Kane 2013 President R L KANE FAMILY FOUNDATION
David Middleton 2016 Director BLACK DOG FOUNDATION INC
June Weiss 2013 Secretary ROBERTA AND RUSSELL HOUSMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
Claire K Beck 2016 Director BLACK DOG FOUNDATION INC
Alexandra Chatara Middleton 2016 Director BLACK DOG FOUNDATION INC
Deborah L Tarrant 2016 Director RICHARD E AND DEBORAH L TARRANT FOUNDATION INC
Joseph A Wagner 2016 Director BLACK DOG FOUNDATION INC
Ronald L Roberts 2016 Director RICHARD E AND DEBORAH L TARRANT FOUNDATION INC
Kevin S Veller 2016 Director RICHARD E AND DEBORAH L TARRANT FOUNDATION INC
Dan Unwin 2015 Vice President THE FRANCES HICKS MEMORIAL FUND INC
Flo Levin 2015 Director THE FRANCES HICKS MEMORIAL FUND INC
Marshall M Wheelock 2015 Treasurer THE FRANCES HICKS MEMORIAL FUND 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.