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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Mia Moore 2015 President & Ceo $0 $0 HUNGER MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Mary Anne Van Degna 2015 Trustee $0 $0 DORSET THEATRE FESTIVAL
Paula J Kane Esq 2015 Member $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
William O'Connor Jr 2015 Member $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Marietta Scholten Md 2015 Member $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
John Casavant 2015 Member $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Dawn Bugbee 2015 Member $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Lorne Babb Md 2015 Member $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Nick Hadden 2015 Member $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Michael Kennedy Md 2015 Member $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Frank J Zsoldos Md 2015 Past Member $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Ron Qugley 2015 Trustee $0 $0 DORSET THEATRE FESTIVAL
Patrick Talcott 2015 Past Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Kevin Manahan 2015 President $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Janet Mccarthy 2015 Secretary $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Michelle P Lawrence 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Leon Berthiaume 2015 Vice President $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Deb Mcaneny End 22916 2015 Director/Ex Officio/Univ Chair $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Tricia Heaton 2016 Board Member $0 $0 LONG TRAIL SCHOOL INC
Chris Hickey 2015 Cfo $0 $0 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Roger Questel 2015 Trustee $0 $0 DORSET THEATRE FESTIVAL
James R Keller 2015 Director/Vice Chair $0 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Jay Kearns 2016 Trustee $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Jean E Miller 2015 Trustee $0 $0 DORSET THEATRE FESTIVAL
Patrick Mcbride 2015 Trustee $0 $0 DORSET THEATRE FESTIVAL

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.