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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lila Cestone 2016 President/Board Chair $0 $0 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE AUXILIARY
Margaret Baratto 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE AUXILIARY
Maureen Loy 2016 Vice President $0 $0 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE AUXILIARY
Noreen Gardner 2016 Secretary $0 $0 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE AUXILIARY
Nancy Whitten 2016 Trustee $0 $0 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE AUXILIARY
Sarah Crum 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BRISTOL FAMILY CENTER
Shawna Sherwin 2016 President $0 $0 BRISTOL FAMILY CENTER
Jennifer Oxford 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BRISTOL FAMILY CENTER
Donald Skekel 2016 Vice President $0 $0 SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Mandy Giles 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Gladys Collins 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Lisa Pitcher 2016 Board Member $0 $0 SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Susan Lee 2016 Director $0 $0 AWAKENING SANCTUARY INC
Philip Trabulsy Md 2016 Director $0 $0 AWAKENING SANCTUARY INC
Elizabeth Vogel 2016 Director $0 $0 AWAKENING SANCTUARY INC
Annie Jackson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION
Mateo Kehler 2016 Trustee $0 $0 HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION
Jerry Schwartz 2016 Trustee $0 $0 HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION
Susan Gilberg 2016 Trustee $0 $0 HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION
Joshua Carpenter 2016 Vice President $0 $0 HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION
Amy Gleicher 2016 Trustee $0 $0 HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION
Kristina Michelsen 2016 Trustee $0 $0 HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION
Roger Begelman 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION
Peter Degraff 2016 Director $0 $0 HELEN PORTER NURSING HOME INC
Richard Foote 2016 Director $0 $0 HELEN PORTER NURSING HOME 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.