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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
William H Bruett 2014 Vice President WINDHAM FOUNDATION
Rye Mathews 2014 Director WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC
Richard E Tarrant 2015 Director RICHARD E AND DEBORAH L TARRANT FOUNDATION INC
Deborah L Tarrant 2015 Director RICHARD E AND DEBORAH L TARRANT FOUNDATION INC
Ronald L Roberts 2015 Director RICHARD E AND DEBORAH L TARRANT FOUNDATION INC
Kevin S Veller 2015 Director RICHARD E AND DEBORAH L TARRANT FOUNDATION INC
Frank Cioffi 2015 Director RICHARD E AND DEBORAH L TARRANT FOUNDATION INC
Lauren A Curry 2015 Executive Director RICHARD E AND DEBORAH L TARRANT FOUNDATION INC
Elizabeth A Ruane 2014 Trustee FOUR ANGELS FOUNDATION
Colleen Mcdonough 2016 Director PUBLIC DOMAIN FOUNDATION
Evelyn Silver 2015 Trustee SILVER LEVINE CHARITABLE TRUST
Bari Dreissigacker 2015 Director/Secretary/Treasur THREE THIRTY THREE FOUNDATION INC
Jessica Miller 2015 Administrato INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ETHNOBIOLOGY
Raymond C Pecor Jr 2015 President PECOR FAMILY FOUNDATION
Raymond C Pecor Iii 2015 Vp/Treasuer/Secretary PECOR FAMILY FOUNDATION
Alan Sylvester 2015 Director PECOR FAMILY FOUNDATION
Carolyn Wright 2014 Treasurer MILL FOUNDATION LTD
C Dennis Hill 2014 Director ROBERT FLEMING & JANE HOWE PATRICK FOUNDATION
Barry E Parker 2016 Trustee SUNNINGDALE CHARITABLE TRUST
Jeffrey Parker 2016 Trustee SUNNINGDALE CHARITABLE TRUST
Gianna Skates 2015 Director KULA COOPERATIVE INC
Denise Christine Dugan Cupoli 2015 Director KULA COOPERATIVE INC
Steven Dimick 2014 President LAMSON HOWELL FOUNDATION INC
Ian Ewyatt 2016 Director/President WYATT FAMILY FOUNDATION
Carrie V Wyatt 2016 Director/Secretary WYATT FAMILY FOUNDATION

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.