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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Marga Sproul 2016 Trustee $0 $0 THE CONVERSE HOME INC
Angelike Contis 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT ACCESS NETWORK INC
Douglas Bergstein 2016 Director $0 $0 THE VALLEY PLAYERS
Deanna S Howard 2015 Dh Representative $0 $65,131 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Patty O'Neill 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Murray Thompson 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Vincent Fusca Iii 2015 Trustee $0 $40,558 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
William Palmer Md 2015 Trustee $0 $138,860 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Paulette Ruthier 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Jan Roy 2016 Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Maria Padin Md 2015 Dh Representative $0 $36,609 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Donna Vanfleet 2015 Chair $0 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
David Ainsworth 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Hon Donna Sweaney 2015 Vice-Chair $0 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
John Franklin 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Henry Binder Md 2016 Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Bonnie Finnigan 2016 Trustee $0 $0 THE CONVERSE HOME INC
Lynn Peterson Md 2015 Trustee $0 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Michael Newbold 2015 Trustee $0 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Jesse Rogers 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
John Gilman 2015 Trustee $0 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Lucien St Onge 2015 Board Member $0 $0 UMBRELLA OF ST JOHNSBURY INC
Marjorie Urie 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
David Yacovone 2016 Trustee $0 $0 COPLEY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Bess O'Brien 2015 Board Member $0 $0 UMBRELLA OF ST JOHNSBURY 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.