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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Spencer Knapp 2015 Trustee GENERAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC FOUNDED BY EMMA ELIZA CURTIS
Joseph Boutin 2015 Trustee GENERAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC FOUNDED BY EMMA ELIZA CURTIS
Amy Mellencamp 2015 Trustee GENERAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC FOUNDED BY EMMA ELIZA CURTIS
Mary Faith Wilson 2016 Director JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
Mary Mergens-Loughran 2014 President & Treasurer ANN A MERGENS FOUNDATION INC
Willem P Leenman 2014 Chairman F S M SUPPORTIVE LIVING
Bari Dreissigacker 2014 Director/Secretary/Treasur THREE THIRTY THREE FOUNDATION INC
Nancy V Deren 2014 Co-Trustee LYDIA B STOKES FOUNDATION
Matt Schlein 2014 Director WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC
William J Fisk 2013 President OLIN SCOTT FUND INC
Josephine Birnbaum 2015 Director MATHEW & JOSEPHINE BIRNBAUM FOUNDATION
Ellen Mallia 2015 President STRATTON MOUNTAIN SKI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
Barry E Parker 2014 Trustee SUNNINGDALE CHARITABLE TRUST
Conrad Reining 2014 Manager FRANK AND BRINNA SANDS FOUNDATION
Charlotte Colby Danly Jackson 2014 President & Director RISING PHOENIX FOUNDATION INC
Katherine L Coppock 2014 President OAKLAND FOUNDATION
David P Silloway 2014 President CENTRAL VERMONT MILK PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
Ingrid Broad 2013 Treasurer NELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Horace L Shepard 2013 Dir, Treas SHEPARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
William H Carris 2013 President/Treasurer HUNTINGTON TRACY FOUNDATION
Kirk Williams 2016 Vice President PHILIP S HARPER FOUNDATION
Kelli Warriner Cfp 2013 Director HOLTON HOME INC
Ron A Mcconnell 2014 Fitness Director STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD
Christine Stiller 2016 President/Director STILLER FAMILY FOUNDATION
Elizabeth Rossano 2017 Film Editor HARDWICK COMMUNITY TELEVISION 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.