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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
William Cody 2013 President OM FISHER HOME INC
Lorraine Unwin 2016 Trustee THE FRANCES HICKS MEMORIAL FUND INC
A Dawes Wilson 2016 Director JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
Judith Gendron 2015 Treasurer OM FISHER HOME INC
Donald Huffman 2014 Treasurer MARIAN P HUFFMAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
Scott Cummings 2016 Director HEARTSFIRE FOUNDATION INC
Jane E Osgood 2016 Trustee OSGOOD-HILLES CHARITABLE TRUST
Stephanie Calanthe Victoria 2016 Director HEARTSFIRE FOUNDATION INC
Rachel Lee Cummings 2016 President, Secretary, Trea HEARTSFIRE FOUNDATION INC
Richard Purchase 2013 Vice President OM FISHER HOME INC
Ward T Kane 2013 Treasurer R L KANE FAMILY FOUNDATION
Laura L Kane 2013 Vice-President R L KANE FAMILY FOUNDATION
Allan Hansell 2013 Director HOLTON HOME INC
Dinni Jain 2014 Trustee WINDHAM FOUNDATION
Andrew Pott 2013 Director KEAL FOUNDATION
Joe Meyer 2013 Director HOLTON HOME INC
Timothy Shafer Md 2013 Director HOLTON HOME INC
Leslie Bergeron 2013 Director KEAL FOUNDATION
Jeffrey B Lennox 2013 Settlor & Trustee LENNOX FAM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TR
Andrew Harper 2014 Secy/Treas PHILIP S HARPER FOUNDATION
Muriel Crowell 2013 Trustee ROBERT L CROWELL CHARITABLE TR
Sherry Libardoni 2013 Co-Chair M FLETCHER TKACZYK AND ELSIE F MAHANEY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP TR
Dept Of Anthropology 2013 President NORTHEASTERN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOC NEAA
Dept Of Anthropology 2013 President Elect NORTHEASTERN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOC NEAA
Theresa Douglas 2013 Sec/Treas/Bk HAMMOND CHAPMAN FOUNDATION FOR YESTERDAYS LIVING LTD

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.