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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Frederick W Hilles 2015 Trustee OSGOOD-HILLES CHARITABLE TRUST
Richard Feldmann 2015 Trustee WILLIAM DEAN FAUSETT FNDTN FOR PRSV & PRTCTN OF GRN MNTN BOYS HSTRY
Michael Baratoff 2015 President, Bod MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC
Fred Nelson 2015 Executive Director MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC
Melinda Dickie 2014 Exec. Dir. OLIN SCOTT FUND INC
Bill Shouldice Iv 2014 Chair VERMONT CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC
Judith Gendron 2016 Trustee OM FISHER HOME INC
Mary Beth Watt 2016 Rn OM FISHER HOME INC
Patricia B Wilson 2015 Director JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
Charles A Meeks 2016 Maint. Supervisor OM FISHER HOME INC
Nancy Gale Martin 2016 Trustee OM FISHER HOME INC
William Callnan 2016 Trustee OM FISHER HOME INC
Jim Mcqueston 2016 President OM FISHER HOME INC
April Cornell 2015 Director, President & Trea THE GIVING WORLD FOUNDATION INC
William Cody 2016 Trustee OM FISHER HOME INC
Walter Danco 2014 Chairman CHAMPLAIN NORTH FOUNDATION INC
Richard Purchase 2016 Vice President OM FISHER HOME INC
Kathe Dillman 2015 Director EQUINOX PRESERVATION TRUST INC
April Cornell 2015 Fundraising Coordinator THE GIVING WORLD FOUNDATION INC
Daria L Morrissey 2015 Trustee LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
Stephen C Link 2015 Trustee LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
Gregory R Link 2015 Trustee LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
Elizabeth T Pollio 2015 Sec'Y/Director POLLIO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Katherine L Coppock 2016 President OAKLAND FOUNDATION
Pamela Rodriguez Cpa 2016 Director BOUTIN FAMILY 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.