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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Clarence W Leeds Iii 2016 President JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
Ellen Rc Pomeroy 2015 President/Trustee JACKSON HOLE PRESERVE INC
John Fry 2015 Chairman Of The Board INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Arthur Currier 2015 Director INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Hans Geier 2015 Director INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
William D Barker 2016 Director JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
Wendy Leeds 2016 Secretary/Treasurer JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
Rosanna Lak 2016 Exec Dir CARTER INC
Margaret Baird 2016 Co-Trustee LLH LHM FOUNDATION
Gregory R Link 2016 Trustee LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
Rachel Mergens 2016 V-P; Director Of Fin GEORGE W MERGENS FOUNDATION
Roger M Prevot 2016 Trustee PREVOT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Alan Sylvester 2016 Director PECOR FAMILY FOUNDATION
Wolf Kahn 2016 President WOLF KAHN AND EMILY MASON FOUNDATION INC
Madhurii E Barefoot 2016 0 P C MORRELL FAMILY FOUNDATION
John Rupert Thouron 2016 Trustee DUP THOURON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TR UA 06251999
Anthony Wood 2016 Director THE ORTON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Bari Dreissigacker 2016 Director/Secretary/Treasur THREE THIRTY THREE FOUNDATION INC
Margaret M Prevot 2016 Trustee PREVOT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Daria L Morrissey 2016 Trustee LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
Carla Hartman 2016 Director CHARLES AND RAY EAMES HOUSE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC
Rebecca L Wood 2016 Trustee LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
Anne Harper 2015 President PHILIP S HARPER FOUNDATION
Alece Montez-Griego 2016 Director Of Programs THE ORTON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Susan Murray 2016 Secretary THE FRANCES HICKS MEMORIAL FUND 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.