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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Thomas Daniels 2014 Director THE ORTON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Barbara T Carris 2016 Vice President/Secretary HUNTINGTON TRACY FOUNDATION
Jennifer Carris Swetland 2016 Board Member HUNTINGTON TRACY FOUNDATION
Clea James 2014 President NELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Mary Waldo 2013 Secretary LAMSON HOWELL FOUNDATION INC
Andrew Marks 2016 Treasurer S D IRELAND CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC
Scott Kohn 2013 Director THREE THIRTY THREE FOUNDATION INC
Peter Dreissigacker 2013 Director/President THREE THIRTY THREE FOUNDATION INC
Sherry Ristau 2015 Director THE ORTON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Laurie D Grigg 2016 Trustee S & C HARVEST FOUNDATION INC
Daniel Roock 2013 Grp, Rowing Coach CONCRETE FOUNDATION INC
Sally G Olmsted 2016 Trustee S & C HARVEST FOUNDATION INC
Eric Schulz 2013 Special Projects CONCRETE FOUNDATION INC
Chas Mraz 2014 Director COLUMBUS SMITH ESTATE TRUST INC
Josephine Birnbaum 2014 Director MATHEW & JOSEPHINE BIRNBAUM FOUNDATION
Melinda Dickie 2015 Exec. Dir. OLIN SCOTT FUND INC
Timmie Rome 2014 President, Treasurer Director TILLIE AND WILLIAM BLUMSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Eileen Beach 2016 Trustee MOUNT LAUREL FOUNDATION INC
Michael Keough 2016 Trustee MOUNT LAUREL FOUNDATION INC
Edgar T Campbell 2016 Trustee MOUNT LAUREL FOUNDATION INC
Abby Young 2013 Member CHILL FOUNDATION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
Marie E Hausman 2014 President R & R FOUNDATION INC
Tom Perera 2014 Trustee THE SEEGER BARTLETT FOUNDATION
Evan Blittersdorf 2015 Secretary JAN & DAVID BLITTERSDORF FOUNDATION INC
Mary Parke Meyer 2014 Secretary THE WISDOM CONNECTION 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.