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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Charles Sanders 2013 Director INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC
Peter Sills 2013 Vice President SILLS FAMILY FOUNDATION
Lorraine Tomlinson 2013 Business Director THE CONVERSE HOME INC
Thalia Venerable 2016 Co-Trustee LYDIA B STOKES FOUNDATION
James Harvey 2013 President VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM
Gladys Rocheleau 2013 Director WARNER HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS TRUSTEES
Lucia D Atwood 2013 Vice President CHARLES AND RAY EAMES HOUSE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC
Eric Tobin 2013 Director BRYAN MEMORIAL GALLERY FOUNDATION INC
Alden T Bryan 2013 Director BRYAN MEMORIAL GALLERY FOUNDATION INC
Nathan J Huffman 2013 Vice Pres MARIAN P HUFFMAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
Mark Powers 2013 President HOMESTEAD INC
Mary Kn Heininger 2016 Director PATERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Henry R Schaefer 2013 Director HENRY O SCHAEFER FAMILY FOUNDATION
Suzanne Hanna 2013 Director COMMON GROUND CENTER INC
Mary Ann Schaefer 2013 Secretary ARLINGTON COMMUNITY PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING SERVICE INC
Evan Blittersdorf 2013 Secretary JAN & DAVID BLITTERSDORF FOUNDATION INC
Chas Mraz 2013 Director COLUMBUS SMITH ESTATE TRUST INC
Clea James 2013 President NELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Joseph Charbonneau 2013 Treasurer EQUINOX PRESERVATION TRUST INC
Nancy C Polk 2013 Vp FIVE TWENTY-FIVE FOUNDATION
Jennifer Samuelson 2013 Director EQUINOX PRESERVATION TRUST INC
Peter Schaefer 2013 Director HENRY O SCHAEFER FAMILY FOUNDATION
Trust Company Of Vermont 2013 Trustee WILLIAM DEAN FAUSETT CHARITABLE TRUST
Ernest A Pomerleau 2013 Secretary ANTONIO B AND RITA M POMERLEAU FOUNDATION INC
Basil Stetson 2013 Director THE GIVING WORLD 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.