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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Diane Guite 2015 Director J MICHEL GUITE FAMILY FOUNDATION
Seth Masia 2015 President INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
David A Donath 2015 Trustee JACKSON HOLE PRESERVE INC
Luzi Hitz 2015 Director INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Jennifer Barrett 2014 Chair ORLEANS COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER
Ellen Rc Pomeroy 2016 President/Trustee JACKSON HOLE PRESERVE INC
Kevin Gaffney 2015 Director VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM
James Dobkowski 2014 Treasurer WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC
Richard Lord Esq 2015 Director VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM
Madeleine Piat-Landolt 2014 Director WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC
Jennifer Barrett 2015 Chair ORLEANS COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER
Dr Trudy Festinger 2016 Pesident MARION E KENWORTHY-SARAH H SWIFT FDN INC
Barbara Chapin 2016 President ESSEX CLASSICAL INSTITUTE
Dr Carolyn Lukensmeyer 2016 Director THE ORTON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Daniel B Rowland 2014 Trustee ROWLAND FOUNDATION INC
Susan Kirkpatrick 2016 Secretary And Treasurer THE ORTON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Byron Atwood 2016 President CHARLES AND RAY EAMES HOUSE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC
Jean Freebern 2016 Vice President ARLINGTON COMMUNITY PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING SERVICE INC
William Cody 2015 Trustee OM FISHER HOME INC
Nick Haslam 2014 Vice President VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM
Michael Breen 2016 Trustee GENERAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC FOUNDED BY EMMA ELIZA CURTIS
Elizabeth A Ruane 2015 Trustee FOUR ANGELS FOUNDATION
Maurice Chaloux 2015 Trustee GOOD SHEPHERD FOUNDATION INC
Tim Church 2016 Treasurer CHURCH FAMILY FOUNDATION
Natalie S Bober 2016 Director JEFFERSON LEGACY 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.