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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Denise Anderson 2017 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
Jane Darrach 2017 Co-Vice President $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
Ellen Rockmore 2017 Co-Vice President $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
Ralph Carlton 2017 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
John Sands 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
David Nierenberg 2017 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
Sarah Miles 2017 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
Cathryn Nunlist 2017 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
Merritt Patridge 2017 President $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
Keith Milne 2017 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
Timothy Van Leer 2017 Member $0 $0 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
Dr Lincoln Brower 2016 Director $0 $0 JOURNEY NORTH
William Lutz 2016 Director $0 $0 JOURNEY NORTH
Peter Degraff 2016 Director $0 $0 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Richard Foote 2016 Director $0 $0 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Stephen Koller Md 2016 Director $0 $0 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Linn Larson Md 2016 Director $0 $0 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Kate Mcintosh Md 2016 Director $0 $0 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Maureen Mclaughlin 2016 Chairperson $0 $0 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Cheryl Mullins 2016 Director $0 $0 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Linda Schiffer 2016 Director $0 $0 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Steve Terry 2016 Director $0 $0 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Michael Newbold 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC
Fred Bay 2016 Director $0 $0 PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC
Mark Beams 2016 Director $0 $0 PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT 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.