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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kathleen Dolan 2013 President/Treasurer PURPLE CRAYON PRODUCTIONS INC
Shirley Montgomery 2013 Director WARNER HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS TRUSTEES
Donald Huffman 2013 Treasurer MARIAN P HUFFMAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
Deborah Sills Iarussi 2013 Secretary SILLS FAMILY FOUNDATION
Tayo Skarrow 2013 Secretary PURPLE CRAYON PRODUCTIONS INC
Anne Thrailkill 2013 Chairman COLUMBUS SMITH ESTATE TRUST INC
Evelyn Silver 2013 Trustee SILVER LEVINE CHARITABLE TRUST
A Dawes Wilson 2013 Director JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
Td Bank Na 2013 Trustee J KENT PERLEY AND BESSIE V PERLEY FUND
Lynn Williams 2013 Vice President ARLINGTON COMMUNITY PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING SERVICE INC
Patricia B Wilson 2013 Director JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
Robert Sloan 2013 Trustee THE MARVIN L AND NORMA J HATHAWAY FOUNDATION
David C Blittersdorf 2013 President JAN & DAVID BLITTERSDORF FOUNDATION INC
William Callnan 2013 Trustee OM FISHER HOME INC
Scott Cummings 2013 Director HEARTSFIRE FOUNDATION INC
James Mendell 2013 Co-Ex. Director COMMON GROUND CENTER INC
Mark Oneill 2013 Director EQUINOX PRESERVATION TRUST INC
David Curtis 2013 Vice President EQUINOX PRESERVATION TRUST INC
Antonio B Pomerleau 2013 President ANTONIO B AND RITA M POMERLEAU FOUNDATION INC
Scott Meyers 2013 Director COMMON GROUND CENTER INC
Patricia M Pomerleau 2013 Vice President ANTONIO B AND RITA M POMERLEAU FOUNDATION INC
Dawn Provost 2013 Executive Dir. OM FISHER HOME INC
April Cornell 2013 Director, President & Trea THE GIVING WORLD FOUNDATION INC
Alison Danly Lazear 2013 Director RISING PHOENIX FOUNDATION INC
April Cornell 2013 Fundraising Coordinator THE GIVING WORLD 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.