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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Ray Stevens 2016 Trustee THE FRANCES HICKS MEMORIAL FUND INC
Stephen C Link 2016 Trustee LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
Carol Bertrand 2016 Director Of Finance THE ORTON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Joseph Boutin 2016 Trustee GENERAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC FOUNDED BY EMMA ELIZA CURTIS
Kirk Williams 2015 Vice President PHILIP S HARPER FOUNDATION
Janice Izzi 2016 Director THE ORTON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Andrew Harper 2015 Secy/Treas PHILIP S HARPER FOUNDATION
Jim Mcqueston 2015 President OM FISHER HOME INC
Robert J Hausman 2016 Vice President R & R FOUNDATION INC
Anne Harper 2014 President PHILIP S HARPER FOUNDATION
Emily Hausman 2014 Director R & R FOUNDATION INC
David A Donath 2016 Trustee JACKSON HOLE PRESERVE INC
Alexa Mcgrath 2016 Assistant Secretary BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD OF VERMONT CARING FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC
Thomas Barefoot Iii 2016 0 P C MORRELL FAMILY FOUNDATION
Douglas Horne 2016 Trustee JACKSON HOLE PRESERVE INC
Flora Roy 2014 President GOOD SHEPHERD FOUNDATION INC
Raymond C Pecor Iii 2016 Vp/Treasuer/Secretary PECOR FAMILY FOUNDATION
Edward Zuccaro 2014 Secretary GOOD SHEPHERD FOUNDATION INC
Joann Gosselin 2015 Treasurer VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM
Daniel Gauthier 2015 Director VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM
William H Wiltshire 2016 V-P; Director Of Ope GEORGE W MERGENS FOUNDATION
Patrick Williams 2015 Director VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM
Petra Dix 2015 Director VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM
Donna Goldberg 2015 Trustee SANDBHREAGH WILDLANDS SANCTUARY AND TR
James Harvey 2015 President VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM

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.