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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Stephen Wise Tulin Esq 2016 Secy-Treas MARION E KENWORTHY-SARAH H SWIFT FDN INC
Mary Mergens-Loughran 2016 President/Treasurer, ANN A MERGENS FOUNDATION INC
Raymond C Pecor Jr 2016 President PECOR FAMILY FOUNDATION
Andrew L Huffman 2014 Secretary MARIAN P HUFFMAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
Jayne Belanger 2015 Treasurer GOOD SHEPHERD FOUNDATION INC
Diane Jennings 2016 Treasurer ARLINGTON COMMUNITY PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING SERVICE INC
Richard Barnett Psy D 2016 President CARTER INC
Joni R Zweig 2016 0 P C MORRELL FAMILY FOUNDATION
Lyman Orton 2016 Chairman Of The Board THE ORTON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Jill Roosma 2016 President ARLINGTON COMMUNITY PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING SERVICE INC
Sherry Ristau 2016 Director THE ORTON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Lynn Williams 2016 Secretary ARLINGTON COMMUNITY PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING SERVICE INC
Alfred H Link 2016 Secretary/Tr LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
Bruce T Link 2016 Trustee LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
Flora Roy 2015 President GOOD SHEPHERD FOUNDATION INC
Lucia D Atwood 2016 Vice President CHARLES AND RAY EAMES HOUSE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC
Belinda Needham-Shropshire 2014 Director SPORTS VENUE FOUNDATION
Noel Paul Stookey 2014 President PUBLIC DOMAIN FOUNDATION
Muriel Crowell 2016 Trustee ROBERT L CROWELL CHARITABLE TR
Brenda Laclair 2016 Director JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
Emily Mason 2016 Vice President WOLF KAHN AND EMILY MASON FOUNDATION INC
Richard Purchase 2015 Vice President OM FISHER HOME INC
Bahman Batmanghelidj 2016 Director JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
Flo Levin 2016 Trustee THE FRANCES HICKS MEMORIAL FUND INC
Roberta F Somach 2016 Director JEFFERSON LEGACY 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.