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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Barry Fauteux 2016 Treasurer MERCHANTS BANK FOUNDATION INC
Rachel Scarpa 2014 Secretary WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC
Jarah Evslin 2016 Trustee EVSLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Scott Cummings 2014 Director HEARTSFIRE FOUNDATION INC
Mollie Hart 2016 Non-Voting Trustee CHARLES P FERRO FOUNDATION
Kevin Gaffney 2016 Director VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM
J Michael Mckenzie 2016 Trustee MCKENZIE FAM CHARITABLE TR
Sheldon Miller 2014 It & Marketing CONCRETE FOUNDATION INC
Torin Koester 2016 Managing Trustee MCKENZIE FAM CHARITABLE TR
Ken Nelson 2014 Director RUTLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
Judith Crowley 2014 Secretary/Treas RUTLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
Jigme Dorji 2015 Regional Rep INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ETHNOBIOLOGY
Hartley Neel 2014 President VERMONT MOBILE IMAGING INC
Ashley Lincoln 2014 Vice President LAMSON HOWELL FOUNDATION INC
Jennifer Davison Smith 2014 Director ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Dale Thompson 2016 Treasurer ESSEX CLASSICAL INSTITUTE
Daniel Gauthier 2014 Director VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM
Bernard Moizo 2015 Regional Rep INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ETHNOBIOLOGY
Karl Lauren 2015 Facility Manager WINDHAM FOUNDATION
Anita Bourgeois 2016 Trustee MERCHANTS BANK FOUNDATION INC
Wendy G Rowland 2014 Secretary ROWLAND FOUNDATION INC
F William Alley 2015 Treasurer THE WISDOM CONNECTION INC
Jonathan Roddy 2016 Trustee MERCHANTS BANK FOUNDATION INC
Thomas S O'Brien 2014 Director RUTLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
Frederic Boswell 2015 Trustee WINDHAM 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.