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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Richard Griffith 2017 Director $0 $0 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF THE RUTLAND REGION INC
Carol Lee 2017 Director $0 $0 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF THE RUTLAND REGION INC
Sally Wood 2017 Director $0 $0 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF THE RUTLAND REGION INC
Joanne Calvi 2017 Director $0 $0 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF THE RUTLAND REGION INC
Larry Jensen 2017 Director $0 $0 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF THE RUTLAND REGION INC
Mel Harder 2017 Ct State Rep $0 $0 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS
Jonathan Nute 2017 Nh State Rep $0 $0 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS
Si Balch 2017 Saf Rep $0 $0 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS
Donn Downey 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS
Anthony Damato 2017 Forest Science Coordinator $0 $0 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS
Robert Macmillian 2017 Ri Rep $0 $0 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS
William Hill 2017 Ma State Rep $0 $0 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS
Timothy J Donovan 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 J WARREN & LOIS MCCLURE FOUNDATION INC
David G Rahr 2017 Director $0 $0 J WARREN & LOIS MCCLURE FOUNDATION INC
Anne Mook 2017 Director $0 $0 J WARREN & LOIS MCCLURE FOUNDATION INC
Laurie Gossens 2017 Director $0 $0 VT-HEC INC
David Rice 2017 Director $0 $0 VT-HEC INC
Alicia Lyford 2017 Director $0 $0 VT-HEC INC
Nancy Sugarman 2017 Director $0 $0 VT-HEC INC
Michael Mancini 2017 Director $0 $0 CYSTIC FIBROSIS LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION
Laura Spiegel 2017 Director $0 $0 CYSTIC FIBROSIS LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION
Mary Gyori 2017 Board Member $0 $0 BLACK MOUNTAIN ASSISTED FAMILY LIVING INC
Ruth Tilghman 2017 Board Chairm $0 $0 BLACK MOUNTAIN ASSISTED FAMILY LIVING INC
Sheila Pinckney 2017 Board Member $0 $0 BLACK MOUNTAIN ASSISTED FAMILY LIVING INC
Peter Case 2017 Vice Preside $0 $0 BLACK MOUNTAIN ASSISTED FAMILY LIVING 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.