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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Chuck Henry 2013 Director BRYAN MEMORIAL GALLERY FOUNDATION INC
Richard Keefer 2013 Secretary/Treasurer CHARLES AND RAY EAMES HOUSE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC
David L Paterson 2016 Director PATERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
William Koucky 2015 Exec. Chef OM FISHER HOME INC
Nicole Carignan 2013 Treasurer BRYAN MEMORIAL GALLERY FOUNDATION INC
Jen Chapin 2013 Director PUBLIC DOMAIN FOUNDATION
Margaret Wilson 2013 Secretary CHARLES COOPER INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
Tate Hausman 2013 Director R & R FOUNDATION INC
Andy Reichsman 2013 Director HOLTON HOME INC
Paul Dedell 2013 Director HOLTON HOME INC
Jill Brehm 2013 Director HOLTON HOME INC
Anne B Keiser 2013 Trustee/Secreta EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC
Donald W Grigg 2015 Trustee S & C HARVEST FOUNDATION INC
Gladys Rocheleau 2014 Director WARNER HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS TRUSTEES
Arthur Short 2015 Vp/Treasurer MOUNT LAUREL FOUNDATION INC
Bina Rothblatt 2015 Secretary/Director TERASEM MOVEMENT FOUNDATION INC
Niles Heron 2015 Director PUBLIC DOMAIN FOUNDATION
Bob Soden 2014 Director INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Paul Mergens 2014 President GEORGE W MERGENS FOUNDATION
Jen Chapin 2015 Director PUBLIC DOMAIN FOUNDATION
John Fry 2014 Chairman Of The Board INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Marlo Dreissigacker Kohn 2015 Director THREE THIRTY THREE FOUNDATION INC
Annabel Lee 2016 Treasurer AM FOUNDATION INC
Christine C Hall 2016 Secretary / Treasurer HALL ART FOUNDATION INC
William Callnan 2015 Trustee OM FISHER HOME 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.