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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Frank E Sands Ii 2014 V Pres/Secy/Director FRANK AND BRINNA SANDS FOUNDATION
John Mcmurtry 2015 Vice President INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Richard Allen 2015 Director INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Mark Candon 2015 V.P./Dir RUTLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
John H Bloomer Jr 2015 President RUTLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
Keith J Mendelson 2015 Secretary J MICHEL GUITE FAMILY FOUNDATION
Ellen Lovell 2016 Secretary WINDHAM FOUNDATION
Andrew Pott 2015 Director KEAL FOUNDATION
Diana Lope-Alzina 2015 Regional Rep INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ETHNOBIOLOGY
George Dascomb Iii 2016 Director-Tru GEORGE A DASCOMB CHARITABLE EXEMPT TRUST
Jeffrey Smith 2016 Vice President WINDHAM FOUNDATION
Trust Company Of Vermont 2016 Trustee ROBERT J GREENE IRREV TR
Jennifer Barrett 2016 Chair ORLEANS COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER
June Weiss 2015 Secretary ROBERTA AND RUSSELL HOUSMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
Russell F Housman 2015 President ROBERTA AND RUSSELL HOUSMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
Sydney N Stokes Jr 2016 Chairman JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
Virginia Enola 2016 Trustee THE FRANCES HICKS MEMORIAL FUND INC
Becky Auger 2016 Trustee THE FRANCES HICKS MEMORIAL FUND INC
Robert Allen 2016 President (April-June 2016) WINDHAM FOUNDATION
William Bruett 2016 Treasurer WINDHAM FOUNDATION
Carolyn Heile 2016 President THE FRANCES HICKS MEMORIAL FUND INC
Kirk Williams 2016 Vice President PHILIP S HARPER FOUNDATION
Seth Disanto 2014 Board Member ORLEANS COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER
Msgr John Conte 2014 Vice President CORPORAL ROBERT BAGNALL USMC MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Michel Guite 2015 President J MICHEL GUITE 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.