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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jane T Zurn 2016 President ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Bill Smith 2016 Director ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Mary Elizabeth Leroux 2016 Director ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Bridget Zurn Garibay 2016 Treasurer ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Donna G Carpenter 2014 Director STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD
Jill Boardman 2014 Director STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD
Donald B Keelan 2016 Trustee KEELAN FAMILY FOUNDATION
Joseph Charbonneau 2016 Treasurer EQUINOX PRESERVATION TRUST INC
Kathe Dillman 2016 Director EQUINOX PRESERVATION TRUST INC
Roger Aberth 2016 Director EQUINOX PRESERVATION TRUST INC
Daniel B Rowland 2016 Trustee ROWLAND FOUNDATION INC
Jennifer Davison Smith 2016 Director ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Mary A Evslin 2014 President EVSLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Nancy V Deren 2015 Co-Trustee LYDIA B STOKES FOUNDATION
Jarah Evslin 2014 Trustee EVSLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Ronald L Roberts 2014 Director RICHARD E AND DEBORAH L TARRANT FOUNDATION INC
Kevin S Veller 2014 Director RICHARD E AND DEBORAH L TARRANT FOUNDATION INC
Tate Hausman 2014 Director R & R FOUNDATION INC
Lola Wangenen Phd 2014 President CLIO VISUALIZING HISTORY INC
Inge Schaefer 2014 Director HENRY O SCHAEFER FAMILY FOUNDATION
Thomas Schaefer 2014 Director HENRY O SCHAEFER FAMILY FOUNDATION
John H Bloomer Jr 2013 President RUTLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
Mark Candon 2013 V.P./Dir RUTLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
Frank E Sands Ii 2013 V Pres/Secy/Director FRANK AND BRINNA SANDS FOUNDATION
Jennifer B Kitchel 2013 Director FRANK AND BRINNA SANDS 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.