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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Patti Lancaster 2016 Vice President $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY PARENT-CHILD CENTER INC
Stephen White 2016 Member $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY PARENT-CHILD CENTER INC
Kyayn Page 2016 Member $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY PARENT-CHILD CENTER INC
Sarah Delance 2016 Member $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY PARENT-CHILD CENTER INC
Margaret Dugan 2016 Member $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY PARENT-CHILD CENTER INC
Lisa Clifford 2016 Member $0 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY PARENT-CHILD CENTER INC
Warren Kitzmiller 2016 Vice President $0 $0 LOST NATION THEATER INC
Robert Chapman 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 LOST NATION THEATER INC
David Porteous 2017 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Peter Cameron 2017 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Margaret Cicchetti 2017 President $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Cathie Merrihew 2017 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Radetta Nemscosky 2017 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Julie Burger Pierson 2017 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Lis Mickenberg 2017 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Maria Pietrafesa-Kind 2017 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Alicia Taylor 2017 Director $0 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
James Dumont 2017 Vice President $0 $0 NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST
Dean Lizottecpa 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST
John Gilman 2016 Trustee $0 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Michael Newbold 2016 Trustee $0 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Lynn Peterson Md 2016 Trustee $0 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Hon Donna Sweaney 2016 Vice-Chair $0 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Donna Vanfleet 2016 Chair $0 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
John Tansey 2016 Secretary $0 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION

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.