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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kathryn Austin 2015 Chair $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SERVICES INC
Alan Wing 2015 Vice Chair - Board $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SERVICES INC
Gary Gillespie 2015 Vice Chair Finance $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SERVICES INC
Melissa Pettersson 2015 Secretary/Clerk $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SERVICES INC
Richard Baraw 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SERVICES INC
Mark Beams 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SERVICES INC
Scott S Segal 2015 Director $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Christopher Rickman Md 2015 Trustee/Physician $0 $41,264 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SERVICES INC
Larry Sisson Md 2015 Medical Staff Vp Beg 10/2015 $0 $44,159 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SERVICES INC
Bill Stenger 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SERVICES INC
Bob Wilson 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SERVICES INC
Frank Knoll 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SERVICES INC
Thomas Milnamow 2015 Trustee $0 $0 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SERVICES INC
Andre Bissonnette 2015 Chief Financial Officer $0 $40,550 NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SERVICES INC
Rebecca Ramos 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PARKS FOREVER INC
Diane L Seder 2015 Director/Secretary $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Bill Moore 2016 Hon Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Ellen Mcculloch-Lovell 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PARKS FOREVER INC
Paul Habersang 2016 Board Member $0 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Marilyn Daniels 2013 Trustee $0 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Rachel Schumacher 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 JOHN G MCCULLOUGH FREE LIBRARY INC
Jason Richardson 2016 Chief Operating Officer $0 $31,730 LINCOLN STREET INC
Paula Cantor 2016 Director $0 $0 VOLUNTEERS FOR PEACE INC
Louise Lintilhac 2016 Director $0 $0 VERMONT PARKS FOREVER INC
Mildred A Reardon 2015 Director $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION

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.