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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
F William Alley 2013 Treasurer THE WISDOM CONNECTION INC
Laurie D Grigg 2013 Trustee S & C HARVEST FOUNDATION INC
Sally G Olmsted 2013 Trustee S & C HARVEST FOUNDATION INC
Thomas P Spellane 2016 Secretary Tr BEZAMAT FOUNDATION INC
Kenneth Davis 2016 Vice Preside STRATTON MOUNTAIN SKI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
Eric E Ingbar 2013 Director NARA FUND INC
S Wells Smith 2013 Trustee SMITH-DENISON FOUNDATION
Andrew Garland 2016 Vice President & Director BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD OF VERMONT CARING FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC
John H Lavelle 2013 Director POLLIO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Inge Schaefer 2013 Director HENRY O SCHAEFER FAMILY FOUNDATION
Howard M Schapiro 2013 Senior Director REDWALL FOUNDATION INC
John Replogle 2014 Director SEVENTH GENERATION FOUNDATION INC
Board Of Directors 2013 Director DANVILLE SCHOOL ENRICHMENT FUND INC
Janet Carroll Schapiro 2013 Senior Director REDWALL FOUNDATION INC
Gary C Link 2013 President LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
Scott Kohn 2014 Director THREE THIRTY THREE FOUNDATION INC
Jonathan C Ingbar 2013 President/Director NARA FUND INC
Gregory Link 2013 Trustee LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
Susan Daly 2016 Secretary STRATTON MOUNTAIN SKI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
Paul M Hannan 2013 Trustee LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
Steve Crimmin 2016 Director STRATTON MOUNTAIN SKI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
Alexa Mcgrath 2014 Assistant Secretary BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD OF VERMONT CARING FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC
Ellen Mallia 2016 Vice Preside STRATTON MOUNTAIN SKI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
Lindsay J Thieken 2016 Director ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Matthew Beer 2016 Trustee ISAIAH 61 FOUNDATION

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.