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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Edward Zuccaro 2016 Chairman WINDHAM FOUNDATION
Scott O'Connell 2016 Director MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC
Heather Dodge 2014 Treasurer SEVENTH GENERATION FOUNDATION INC
Steve Marsh 2016 Board Member ORLEANS COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER
Richard Cunningham 2014 Vice President ROBERT FLEMING & JANE HOWE PATRICK FOUNDATION
Elizabeth Singleton 2016 Director MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC
Walter Danco 2015 Chairman CHAMPLAIN NORTH FOUNDATION INC
Jim Sorrentino 2015 Treasurer/Director TERASEM MOVEMENT FOUNDATION INC
Christine Skoglund 2014 Director F S M SUPPORTIVE LIVING
Caryll Hanbury 2015 Director KEAL FOUNDATION
Seth Disanto 2016 Board Member ORLEANS COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER
Robert Stiller 2015 Secretary/Director STILLER FAMILY FOUNDATION
Christine Stiller 2015 President/Director STILLER FAMILY FOUNDATION
Jenesis Rothblatt 2015 Director TERASEM MOVEMENT FOUNDATION INC
Ann Vining 2016 Clerk ORLEANS COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER
Edward Friedhoff 2016 Trustee CHARLES P FERRO FOUNDATION
Stephen P Magowan 2014 Director CONCRETE FOUNDATION INC
Jill Boardman 2016 Director STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD
George C Burrill 2016 Director BURRILL FOUNDATION INC
David A Otterman Esq 2016 Trustee RONALD J YORK SCHOLARSHIP FUND
William Gilbert 2016 Trustee WINDHAM FOUNDATION
Brian Huber 2016 Director STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD
Anne Harper 2016 President PHILIP S HARPER FOUNDATION
Donna G Carpenter 2016 Director STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD
William J Fisk 2016 President OLIN SCOTT 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.