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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Peggie Telscher 2016 Vice Chair $0 $0 MOUNTAIN SCHOOL AT WINHALL INC
Sian Read 2016 Secretary $0 $0 MOUNTAIN SCHOOL AT WINHALL INC
Laura Mullen 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 MOUNTAIN SCHOOL AT WINHALL INC
Laurie Caplan 2016 Board Member $0 $0 MOUNTAIN SCHOOL AT WINHALL INC
Betsy Cetron 2016 Board Member $0 $0 MOUNTAIN SCHOOL AT WINHALL INC
Cindy Logan 2016 Board Member $0 $0 MOUNTAIN SCHOOL AT WINHALL INC
Christopher Barbieri 2016 Trustee $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Sarah Field 2016 Trustee $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Joyce Judy 2016 Trustee $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Barbara Rochat 2016 Secretary $0 $0 GIFFORD HEALTH CARE INC
Bob Wright 2016 Director $0 $0 GIFFORD HEALTH CARE INC
Todd Winslow 2016 Director $0 $0 GIFFORD HEALTH CARE INC
Sue Sherman 2016 Director $0 $0 GIFFORD HEALTH CARE INC
Carol Bushey 2016 Director $0 $0 GIFFORD HEALTH CARE INC
Sheila Jacobs 2016 Director $0 $0 GIFFORD HEALTH CARE INC
Peter Degraff 2016 Director $0 $0 PORTER HOSPITAL INC
Richard Foote 2016 Director $0 $0 PORTER HOSPITAL INC
Stephen Koller Md 2016 Director $0 $0 PORTER HOSPITAL INC
Linn Larson Md 2016 Director $0 $0 PORTER HOSPITAL INC
Kate Mcintosh 2016 Director $0 $0 PORTER HOSPITAL INC
Maureen Mclaughlin 2016 Chairperson $0 $0 PORTER HOSPITAL INC
Cheryl Mullins 2016 Director $0 $0 PORTER HOSPITAL INC
Linda Schiffer 2016 Director $0 $0 PORTER HOSPITAL INC
Steve Terry 2016 Director $0 $0 PORTER HOSPITAL INC
Angela Page 2016 Director $0 $0 SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL 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.