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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Gary C Link 2014 President LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
Marilyn Woodard 2014 Director CHARLES COOPER INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
Rebecca L Wood 2014 Trustee LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
Stephen C Link 2014 Trustee LINK FAMILY FOUNDATION
John S Lutz 2014 Vice-Pres OAKLAND FOUNDATION
Richard A Dreissigacker 2013 Director/President CONCRETE FOUNDATION INC
Nancy C Polk 2014 Vp FIVE TWENTY-FIVE FOUNDATION
Jaime Mccutcheon 2014 Trustee LOCONTI FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST
Florance Romanov 2014 President HAMMOND CHAPMAN FOUNDATION FOR YESTERDAYS LIVING LTD
Janet Carroll Schapiro 2014 Senior Director REDWALL FOUNDATION INC
Gary Bowen 2014 Executive Di HAMMOND CHAPMAN FOUNDATION FOR YESTERDAYS LIVING LTD
Deborah Sills Iarussi 2014 Secretary SILLS FAMILY FOUNDATION
Ernest A Pomerleau 2014 Secretary ANTONIO B AND RITA M POMERLEAU FOUNDATION INC
Maren Ferro Tripolitsiotis 2014 Trustee CHARLES P FERRO FOUNDATION
Jamie A Alpert 2014 Trustee THE@LIONHEART CHARITABLE TRUST
Jason Bregman 2014 Director/V.P. Secretary BERMIL FOUNDATION INC
Ernest A Pomerleau 2016 Secretary ANTONIO B AND RITA M POMERLEAU FOUNDATION INC
Betsy Harper 2016 Director BRYAN MEMORIAL GALLERY FOUNDATION INC
Ellen Mallia 2014 President STRATTON MOUNTAIN SKI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
Charles Lacy 2015 President BARRED ROCK FUND INC
Ben Cohen 2015 Chairman BARRED ROCK FUND INC
Judy Wicks 2015 Vice President BARRED ROCK FUND INC
Charlotte E Macleay 2014 Trustee MACLEAY FOUNDATION
Shelly Smith 2013 Trustee PHOEBUS FUND
William H Carris 2014 President/Treasurer HUNTINGTON TRACY 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.