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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Donna Mcelligott 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
William Daley 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Kathryn Austin 2016 Chair $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Gary Gillespie 2016 Vice Chair Finance $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Melissa Pettersson 2016 Secretary/Clerk $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Richard Baraw 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Frank Knoll 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Thomas Milnamow 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Bill Stenger 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Bob Wilson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Kathryn Austin 2016 Chair $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SERVICES INC
Gary Gillespie 2016 Vice Chair Finance $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SERVICES INC
Melissa Pettersson 2016 Secretary/Clerk $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SERVICES INC
Richard Baraw 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SERVICES INC
Frank Knoll 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SERVICES INC
Thomas Milnamow 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SERVICES INC
Bill Stenger 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SERVICES INC
Bob Wilson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SERVICES INC
Maryellen Griffin 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTH EAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Linda Gochie 2016 Secretary $0 $0 NORTH EAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Jim Chourchesne 2016 Board Member $0 $0 NORTH EAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Jennifer Farmer 2016 Board Member $0 $0 NORTH EAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Dan Prue 2016 Board Member $0 $0 NORTH EAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Paul Finnerty 2016 Recorder/Treasurer $0 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY UNIT FOR SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS
Richard Keith 2016 Board Of Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY UNIT FOR SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS

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.