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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Elizabeth T Pollio 2013 Sec'Y/Director POLLIO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Patricia Passmore Alley 2013 President THE WISDOM CONNECTION INC
Barbara Prentice 2013 Secretary OM FISHER HOME INC
Daria Morrissey 2013 Trustee LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
John E Mazuzan Jr 2013 Senior Director REDWALL FOUNDATION INC
Marcia Violette 2014 Secretary VERMONT ARSON TIP AWARD PROGRAM
Sarah R Oertly 2013 Secretary OERTLY SURIANATA FAMILY FOUNDATION
Hartley Neel 2013 President VERMONT MOBILE IMAGING INC
Richard Horigan 2013 Vice Pres STRATTON MOUNTAIN SKI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
Stephen C Link 2013 Trustee LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
Carl Symecko 2016 President STRATTON MOUNTAIN SKI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
Briar L Alpert 2015 Trustee THE@LIONHEART CHARITABLE TRUST
Stephen D Cushing 2016 Director ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Karl Zurn 2016 Director ZURN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Michael Beer 2016 Trustee ISAIAH 61 FOUNDATION
Jennie Harvey 2016 Student Rep INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ETHNOBIOLOGY
Dennis Kelley Fillippi 2016 Trustee KEELAN FAMILY FOUNDATION
Barry E Parker 2013 Trustee SUNNINGDALE CHARITABLE TRUST
Betsy M Chodorkoff 2016 Treasurer HARRIS & FRANCES BLOCK FOUNDATION
Diane Maurer Schatz 2016 Secretary HARRIS & FRANCES BLOCK FOUNDATION
Jarah Evslin 2013 Trustee EVSLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Kate Morris 2013 Director EVSLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
David Curtis 2016 Vice President EQUINOX PRESERVATION TRUST INC
Betty Manganiello 2016 Secretary EQUINOX PRESERVATION TRUST INC
Steven Misasi 2013 Pres/Treas MISASI 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.