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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Madhurii E Barefoot 2014 0 P C MORRELL FAMILY FOUNDATION
Charles Sanders 2014 Director INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Allison Pobrislo 2014 Director INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Seth Masia 2014 President INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Steven Dimick 2015 President LAMSON HOWELL FOUNDATION INC
Henry Beck 2014 Member CHILL FOUNDATION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
Charles A Meeks 2015 Maint. Supervisor OM FISHER HOME INC
Kathy Thurston 2015 Business Mgr OM FISHER HOME INC
Ashley Lincoln 2015 Vice President LAMSON HOWELL FOUNDATION INC
Donna Carpenter 2014 Co-Chair CHILL FOUNDATION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
Karl Zurn 2016 Director ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Jim Michael 2016 State Advocate KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT FUND
Eileen Curtis 2014 Head Nurse THE CONVERSE HOME INC
Nancy Gale Martin 2015 Trustee OM FISHER HOME INC
Harry Philbrick 2016 Director HALL ART FOUNDATION INC
David A Donath 2014 Trustee JACKSON HOLE PRESERVE INC
Kevin Merritt 2014 Director PUBLIC DOMAIN FOUNDATION
Douglas Horne 2014 Trustee JACKSON HOLE PRESERVE INC
Maryse Brand 2016 Director HALL ART FOUNDATION INC
Raymond C Pecor Jr 2013 President PECOR FAMILY FOUNDATION
Joseph Thompson 2016 Director HALL ART FOUNDATION INC
Michelle Marshall 2014 Nurse THE CONVERSE HOME INC
Nathaniel Hausman 2016 Director R & R FOUNDATION INC
Bonnie Ferro 2016 Co-Executive Directo CHARLES P FERRO FOUNDATION
Robert Harris 2016 Director R & R 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.