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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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 Friedhoff 2013 Trustee CHARLES P FERRO FOUNDATION
Kimberly Ireland 2015 Vp,Sec&Direc S D IRELAND CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC
Judith Gendron 2013 Treasurer OM FISHER HOME INC
Arthur Currier 2013 Director INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Mary Zurn Herrera 2016 Secretary ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Luzi Hitz 2014 Director INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Einar Sunde 2014 Secretary INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Deborah Hatch 2016 Trustee SMITH-DENISON FOUNDATION
Richard Cunningham 2013 Vice President ROBERT FLEMING & JANE HOWE PATRICK FOUNDATION
Mary Ellen Spencer 2014 Trustee THE CONVERSE HOME INC
Frederick K Thaler 2016 Director JERRY GREENFIELD & ELIZABETH K SKARIE FOUNDATION
Elizabeth Skarie 2016 Director JERRY GREENFIELD & ELIZABETH K SKARIE FOUNDATION
Marilyn Dailey Woodard 2013 President CHARLES COOPER INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
Jennifer Carris Swetland 2013 Board Member HUNTINGTON TRACY FOUNDATION
Laraine Smith 2013 Treasurer CHARLES COOPER INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
C Dennis Hill 2013 Director ROBERT FLEMING & JANE HOWE PATRICK FOUNDATION
Robert Harris 2013 Director R & R FOUNDATION INC
Emily Hausman 2013 Director R & R FOUNDATION INC
Bruce Corrette 2016 Director VERMONT MOBILE IMAGING INC
James Mcgregor 2016 Secretary VERMONT MOBILE IMAGING INC
Sten Lium 2016 Vice Preside VERMONT MOBILE IMAGING INC
Rick Moulton 2013 Director INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Kevin Merritt 2013 Director PUBLIC DOMAIN FOUNDATION
Deborah L Tarrant 2013 Director RICHARD E AND DEBORAH L TARRANT FOUNDATION INC
Richard E Tarrant 2013 Director RICHARD E AND DEBORAH L TARRANT 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.