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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Linda Morse 2015 Director Ending 2/16 $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Bill Marshall 2015 Vice Chair $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Berton Whitaker 2015 Interim Pres & Ceo 5/16-9/16 $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Elinor Levy 2015 Chair $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Robert Manning 2016 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT FILM & ARTS CO
Carolyn Shapiro 2016 Director $0 $0 BARRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Elaine Collins 2016 Director $0 $0 NORTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE INCORPORATED
Melissa Dopp 2014 Director $0 $0 GILMAN HOUSING TRUST INC
Bob Wright 2015 Director $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Chris Mckirryer 2014 Secretary $0 $0 VERGENNES AREA RESCUE SQUAD
Lorraine Impey 2015 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Ryan Donnelly 2014 Member $0 $0 VERGENNES AREA RESCUE SQUAD
Sandy Rousse 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT HOME AND COMMUNITY CARE INC
Todd Winslow 2015 Director $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Clay Westbrook 2015 Director Beginning 1/16 $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
William Graves 2015 Trustee $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Judy Kurtz 2016 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT FILM & ARTS CO
Sue Sytsma 2015 Director $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Sue Sherman 2015 Director $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Eileen Boland 2015 Secretary $0 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Jody Richards 2015 Director $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Peter Reed 2015 Director Beginning 1/16 $0 $0 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Paula Scavullo Kitchel 2016 Board Member $0 $0 CATAMOUNT FILM & ARTS CO
Threse Taylor 2016 Director $0 $0 BARRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Cheryl Treworgy 2016 Board Member $0 $0 WOODSTOCK AREA ROTARY CHARITABLE FUND 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.