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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jay Morgenstern 2013 Director PUBLIC DOMAIN FOUNDATION
David Altscul 2013 Director PUBLIC DOMAIN FOUNDATION
Clayton W Frye Jr 2013 Chairman-President JACKSON HOLE PRESERVE INC
Daniel B Rowland 2013 Trustee ROWLAND FOUNDATION INC
John Mcmurtry 2013 Director INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Bob Orbacz 2013 Treasurer INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Bob Danzeisen 2013 Director INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Charles Lacy 2013 President BARRED ROCK FUND INC
Nancy Gale Martin 2013 Trustee OM FISHER HOME INC
Nancy H Rue 2013 President MARIAN P HUFFMAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
Jerry Groswold 2013 Director INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Michell Marshall 2013 Nurse THE CONVERSE HOME INC
Eileen Curtis 2013 Head Nurse THE CONVERSE HOME INC
Mary Ellen Spencer 2013 Trustee THE CONVERSE HOME INC
Fiona Cooper Fenwick 2013 Director BRYAN MEMORIAL GALLERY FOUNDATION INC
Micaela M Myers 2013 Executive Direc BRYAN MEMORIAL GALLERY FOUNDATION INC
Jason Morrissey 2014 Vice President CHARLES COOPER INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
Eames Demetrios 2013 Chair CHARLES AND RAY EAMES HOUSE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC
Lucia Eames 2013 Director CHARLES AND RAY EAMES HOUSE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC
Byron Atwood 2013 President CHARLES AND RAY EAMES HOUSE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC
John Paterson Jr 2016 Director PATERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Natasha Duarte 2015 Managing Dir INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ETHNOBIOLOGY
Dennis Perrault 2016 Treasurer PATERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Charles Haynes 2013 Trustee OM FISHER HOME INC
T Hunter Wilson 2013 President JENCKES 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.