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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Frank Knoll 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER,INC
Thomas Milnamow 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER,INC
Bill Stenger 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER,INC
Bob Wilson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER,INC
Howard W Orr 2016 Chairman $0 $0 KEYSTONE INDEMNITY COMPANY LTD
Charles C Maxson 2016 Vice President $0 $0 KEYSTONE INDEMNITY COMPANY LTD
Carleton V Erickson 2016 Director $0 $0 KEYSTONE INDEMNITY COMPANY LTD
Kathleen Keenan 2016 Public Director $0 $0 VEPP INC
Ken Nolan 2016 Director $0 $0 VEPP INC
Mark Driscoll 2016 Director $0 $0 VEPP INC
Gini Milkey 2016 Public Director $0 $0 VEPP INC
Rita Ricketson 2016 Public Director $0 $0 VEPP INC
Matthew Rubin 2016 President $0 $0 VEPP INC
Brian Waxler 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 VEPP INC
Craig Kieny 2016 Director $0 $0 VEPP INC
Carolyn Alderman 2016 Secretary $0 $0 VEPP INC
Linda Nelson 2016 Vice President $0 $0 VEPP INC
Doug Smith 2016 Director $0 $0 VEPP INC
Claudio Fort 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Paul Bengtson 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Thomas W Huebner 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Steven R Gordon 2016 Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Thomas Dee 2016 Chair $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Jill Berry Bowen 2016 Vice-Chair $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Roger Allbee 2016 Board Member $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS 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.