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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Sir Norman Rosenthal 2016 Director HALL ART FOUNDATION INC
Ethan Hausman 2016 Asst Treasurer R & R FOUNDATION INC
Petra Dix 2016 Director VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM
Loretta Biamonte 2013 Director COMMON GROUND CENTER INC
Peter S Hubbard 2016 Director JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
Joseph A Wagner 2016 Director ALL ABOUT THE LIGHT INC
Susan Kirincich 2014 Director SPORTS VENUE FOUNDATION
Scott O'Connell 2014 Director MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC
John Crowell 2016 Trustee ROBERT L CROWELL CHARITABLE TR
Dan Unwin 2016 Vice President THE FRANCES HICKS MEMORIAL FUND INC
Bruce Buncan 2015 Managing Director TERASEM MOVEMENT FOUNDATION INC
Mary Mergens-Loughran 2015 Vice President GEORGE W MERGENS FOUNDATION
Llisa Demetrios 2016 Director CHARLES AND RAY EAMES HOUSE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC
Richard Keefer 2016 Secretary/Treasurer CHARLES AND RAY EAMES HOUSE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC
Jared Duval 2016 Director THE ORTON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Ed Mcmahon 2016 Director THE ORTON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Michael Saitta 2016 Co-Trustee LLH LHM FOUNDATION
Select Board Of Sheffield Vt 2013 Directors KENISTON AND DANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
Fred Nelson 2014 Executive Director MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC
Maurice Lamothe 2014 Director VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM
David A Baird 2016 Co-Trustee LLH LHM FOUNDATION
Seth Disanto 2015 Board Member ORLEANS COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER
Martha Saitta 2016 Co-Trustee LLH LHM FOUNDATION
Suzanne Welch 2016 Trustee WINDHAM FOUNDATION
Jake Hoeschler 2015 Director INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION 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.