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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Robert Stiller 2016 Secretary/Director STILLER FAMILY FOUNDATION
Jon Pepe 2017 Film Editor HARDWICK COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Paul G Mergens 2014 Vice President/Secretary ANN A MERGENS FOUNDATION INC
Stephen Magowan 2016 Assistant Secretary STILLER FAMILY FOUNDATION
Peter Dreissigacker 2015 Director/President THREE THIRTY THREE FOUNDATION INC
Charles Bargamin 2014 Secretary CHARLES COOPER INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
Steven Palumbo 2016 Director PHILIP S HARPER FOUNDATION
Peter Graham 2014 Director SEVENTH GENERATION FOUNDATION INC
Vera Dosky 2016 Trustee CHARLES P FERRO FOUNDATION
Alan Hersker 2015 President NORTHEASTERN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOC NEAA
Peter Dreissigacker 2016 Director/President THREE THIRTY THREE FOUNDATION INC
Marlo Dreissigacker Kohn 2016 Director THREE THIRTY THREE FOUNDATION INC
Aimee Mitchell 2015 Secretary NORTHEASTERN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOC NEAA
Scott Kohn 2016 Director THREE THIRTY THREE FOUNDATION INC
Anne Galvin 2015 Treasurer NORTHEASTERN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOC NEAA
Curtiss Hoffman 2015 President El NORTHEASTERN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOC NEAA
Andrea Reimann-Ciardelli 2014 President SPORTS VENUE FOUNDATION
Robert Allen 2014 President & Ceo WINDHAM FOUNDATION
Roger B Wilson 2016 Treasurer JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
Nora Wilson 2016 Secretary JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
T Hunter Wilson 2016 President JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
Patricia B Wilson 2016 Director JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
John B Carpenter 2014 Director STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD
Roger M Prevot 2015 Trustee PREVOT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Margaret M Prevot 2015 Trustee PREVOT FAMILY 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.