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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Peter Cobb 2014 Executive Dir. $0 $11,288 VERMONT HOME AND COMMUNITY CARE INC
Janet Mccarthy 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT HOME AND COMMUNITY CARE INC
Lynne Limoge 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT HOME AND COMMUNITY CARE INC
Ron Cioffi 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT HOME AND COMMUNITY CARE INC
Lisa Pettery-Gill 2014 1St Vice President $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Rebecca Duncan 2015 Director $0 $0 MT SNOW REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
George Gonnella 2016 Secretary $0 $0 STARK MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC
Peter Monaco 2016 Director $0 $0 LAMOILLE COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC
Scott Funk 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Jennifer Betit 2015 Director $0 $0 MT SNOW REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Christine Zilski 2016 Member $0 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF-ADVOCATES INC
Mary Ellen Reis 2015 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Karl Rinker 2016 Past President $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Richard Shadroui 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Beth Emerson 2015 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Melissa Murphy 2016 Vice President $0 $0 CATAMOUNT FILM & ARTS CO
Heather Pipino 2016 Director $0 $0 BARRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Theodore Goulette 2016 Board Member $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Caroline Earle 2016 President Elect $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Bruce Palmer 2015 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Thomas Babic 2016 President $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Elizabeth Laperle 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Thomas Wales 2015 Treasurer/Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Greg Macdonald 2016 Secretary $0 $0 CATAMOUNT FILM & ARTS CO
Linda Morse 2015 Director Ending 2/16 $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER 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.