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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Nancy Natvig 2017 Secretary $0 $0 PEOPLES HEALTH AND WELLNESS CLINIC
Francis Sharpstene 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 PEOPLES HEALTH AND WELLNESS CLINIC
Susan Gretowski 2017 President $0 $0 PEOPLES HEALTH AND WELLNESS CLINIC
Laura Backus Hall 2017 Director $0 $0 PEOPLES HEALTH AND WELLNESS CLINIC
Lucie Garand 2017 Director $0 $0 PEOPLES HEALTH AND WELLNESS CLINIC
Sarah Lindberg 2017 Director $0 $0 PEOPLES HEALTH AND WELLNESS CLINIC
Karla Nuissl 2017 Director $0 $0 PEOPLES HEALTH AND WELLNESS CLINIC
Debbie Sanguinetti 2017 Director $0 $0 PEOPLES HEALTH AND WELLNESS CLINIC
Steve Larose 2017 Director $0 $0 PEOPLES HEALTH AND WELLNESS CLINIC
Brian Fletcher 2017 Director $0 $0 NEWPORT COUNTRY CLUB INC
Bill Heanue 2017 Director $0 $0 NEWPORT COUNTRY CLUB INC
Sue Hebb 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT CONGREGATIONAL HOME INC
Steve Ross 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT CONGREGATIONAL HOME INC
Steve Schramm 2017 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT CONGREGATIONAL HOME INC
Jim Thomas 2017 Ex-Officio $0 $0 VERMONT CONGREGATIONAL HOME INC
Cynthia Batten 2017 President $0 $0 VERMONT CONGREGATIONAL HOME INC
Deb Hallet 2015 Trustee $0 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Alice Bennett 2017 Member $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Sandra George 2017 Member $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Peg Bruce 2017 Member $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Charles Kettles 2017 Member $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Edward W Spaulding 2017 Vice Chairman $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Nora-Ellen Spaulding 2017 Secretary/ Trea $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Everett Allen 2017 Chairman $0 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Wm J Pete Cobb 2017 Pres. $0 $0 LONDONDERRY VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD

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.