Vermont Nonprofit Navigator
Explore the organizations and people that power Vermont's $6.8 billion nonprofit economy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas S O'Brien | 2015 | Director | — | — | RUTLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC |
| Fran Stocker | 2015 | Assistant Secretary | — | — | J MICHEL GUITE FAMILY FOUNDATION |
| Earll Pott | 2015 | Director | — | — | KEAL FOUNDATION |
| Robin Stern | 2016 | Trustee | — | — | WINDHAM FOUNDATION |
| Becky Bryant | 2016 | Accounting/Grants Mg | — | — | WINDHAM FOUNDATION |
| Steven Misasi | 2015 | Pres/Treas | — | — | MISASI FOUNDATION INC |
| Ken Nelson | 2015 | Director | — | — | RUTLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC |
| Crystal Duncan | 2014 | Director | — | — | SEVENTH GENERATION FOUNDATION INC |
| Charles Sanders | 2015 | Director | — | — | INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC |
| James S Sligar | 2015 | Secretary | — | — | JACKSON HOLE PRESERVE INC |
| Bob Orbacz | 2015 | Treasurer | — | — | INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC |
| Laraine B Smith | 2014 | Treasurer | — | — | CHARLES COOPER INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL |
| Dick Cutler | 2015 | Director | — | — | INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC |
| Skip Beitzel | 2015 | Director | — | — | INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC |
| Elizabeth S Sunde | 2014 | Executive Dir. | — | — | PUBLIC DOMAIN FOUNDATION |
| William H Wiltshire | 2016 | Secretary | — | — | ANN A MERGENS FOUNDATION INC |
| Nick Haslam | 2015 | Vice President | — | — | VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM |
| Michael Patnode | 2016 | State Deputy | — | — | KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT FUND |
| John Allaire | 2015 | Director | — | — | VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM |
| John Maccullum | 2015 | Director | — | — | VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM |
| Susan Lillia Baird Kennedy | 2016 | Co-Trustee | — | — | LLH LHM FOUNDATION |
| Robert Patterson | 2015 | Director | — | — | VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM |
| Paul G Mergens | 2016 | Vice-President | — | — | ANN A MERGENS FOUNDATION INC |
| W Walter Menninger M D | 2016 | Vice President | — | — | MARION E KENWORTHY-SARAH H SWIFT FDN INC |
| Ann Vining | 2015 | Clerk | — | — | ORLEANS COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER |
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.
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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.