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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Amelia Schonbek 2016 Trustee ISAIAH 61 FOUNDATION
Joseph L Boutin 2016 President BOUTIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Daniel B Rowland 2015 Trustee ROWLAND FOUNDATION INC
Charles W Scranton 2015 Ex Dir/Trustee ROWLAND FOUNDATION INC
James C Mooney 2015 Trustee ROWLAND FOUNDATION INC
Cathy L Berry 2016 Secretary And Director WHITE WIND FOUNDATION INC
Abby Sutton 2016 Director WHITE WIND FOUNDATION INC
Bruce T Link 2015 Trustee LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
A Dawes Wilson 2015 Director JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
Kathy Thurston 2016 Business Mgr OM FISHER HOME INC
Charles Haynes 2016 Trustee OM FISHER HOME INC
Joy Partridge 2016 Rn OM FISHER HOME INC
Chas Mraz 2015 Director COLUMBUS SMITH ESTATE TRUST INC
Ethan Hausman 2015 Asst Treasurer R & R FOUNDATION INC
Rachel Scarpa 2015 Secretary WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC
Beth Paye 2015 Board Members JAZZYS CHILDREN FUND
Madeleine Piat-Landolt 2015 Board Member WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC
David Leckey 2015 Executive Director THE ORTON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Jack Hoopes 2014 Director SPORTS VENUE FOUNDATION
Milton Moore Iii 2016 Trustee FLETCHER FARM FOUNDATION INC
John Allaire 2014 Director VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM
Laraine B Smith 2016 Treasurer CHARLES COOPER INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
Rachel Fischer 2015 Cleaner STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD
Melissa Miner 2014 Director SPORTS VENUE FOUNDATION
Antonio B Pomerleau 2014 President ANTONIO B AND RITA M POMERLEAU 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.