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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Munson Hicks 2016 Trustee THE FRANCES HICKS MEMORIAL FUND INC
Peter Sills 2015 Vice President SILLS FAMILY FOUNDATION
David Middleton 2016 President ALL ABOUT THE LIGHT INC
Timothy Crowell 2016 Trustee ROBERT L CROWELL CHARITABLE TR
Caire K Beck 2016 Treasurer ALL ABOUT THE LIGHT INC
Arthur Sills 2015 President SILLS FAMILY FOUNDATION
Jchurchill Hindes 2016 Trustee GENERAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC FOUNDED BY EMMA ELIZA CURTIS
Spencer Knapp 2016 Trustee GENERAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC FOUNDED BY EMMA ELIZA CURTIS
Jane E Osgood 2014 Trustee OSGOOD-HILLES CHARITABLE TRUST
Tate Hausman 2016 Director R & R FOUNDATION INC
Rachel Lee Cummings 2013 President, Secretary, Trea HEARTSFIRE FOUNDATION INC
Martha A Davies 2016 President & AM FOUNDATION INC
Conrad Reining 2016 Manager FRANK AND BRINNA SANDS FOUNDATION
Emily Hausman 2016 Director R & R FOUNDATION INC
Marie E Hausman 2016 President R & R FOUNDATION INC
Marnie Owen 2016 Secretary R & R FOUNDATION INC
Frederick W Hilles 2014 Trustee OSGOOD-HILLES CHARITABLE TRUST
Andrew J Hall 2016 President HALL ART FOUNDATION INC
Nancy M Sluys 2014 President HARRIS & FRANCES BLOCK FOUNDATION
Emma Hall 2016 Director HALL ART FOUNDATION INC
Lenora Mergens 2015 Secretary GEORGE W MERGENS FOUNDATION
Brinna B Sands 2014 President & Director FRANK AND BRINNA SANDS FOUNDATION
Ellen Rc Pomeroy 2014 President/Trustee JACKSON HOLE PRESERVE INC
Frank J Gilbride Ii 2016 V President BEZAMAT FOUNDATION INC
Joseph L Pollio Jr 2013 Pres/Chairman POLLIO FAMILY FOUNDATION 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.