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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Anne C Silloway 2014 Sec/Treas. CENTRAL VERMONT MILK PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
Jerry Greenfield 2014 Director JERRY GREENFIELD & ELIZABETH K SKARIE FOUNDATION
David Smith 2014 Trustee VERMONT CFIDS ASSOCIATION INC
Verna Miller 2015 Vice Preside INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ETHNOBIOLOGY
Elizabeth P Pierce 2016 Director PATERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Deborah S Rinner 2013 Dir SHEPARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Alfred H Link 2013 Secretary/Tr LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
Scott Johnson 2016 Director STRATTON MOUNTAIN SKI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
Sarah R Oertly 2013 Vice President OERTLY SURIANATA FAMILY FOUNDATION
Julius Rosenwald Iii 2013 Trustee SOUTH MEADOW FOUNDATION
Rebecca Wood 2013 Trustee LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
Rukiah S Oertly 2013 President OERTLY SURIANATA FAMILY FOUNDATION
Susan K Grigg 2013 Vp/Secy/Trea S & C HARVEST FOUNDATION INC
Donald R Hollis 2013 Trustee THE HOLLIS FAMILY FOUNDATION DTD 12-28-1999
Adam L Alpert 2013 Trustee THE@LIONHEART CHARITABLE TRUST
Julia K Rosenwald 2016 Vice Chair CHILMARK FOUNDATION
Francis X Moriarty 2013 Dir SHEPARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Stephanie Calanthe Victoria 2013 Director HEARTSFIRE FOUNDATION INC
Peg Kamens 2013 Co-Ex. Director COMMON GROUND CENTER INC
Briar L Alpert 2013 Trustee THE@LIONHEART CHARITABLE TRUST
Nora Wilson 2013 Secretary JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
Neil Mackey 2013 Vp COLUMBUS SMITH ESTATE TRUST INC
Alan Bookspan 2013 Trustee LORE F LEDER FOUNDATION TRUST
Debra Young 2013 Secretary COLUMBUS SMITH ESTATE TRUST INC
Kimberly J Smith 2013 Trustee WARNER HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS TRUSTEES

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.