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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kathleen Colson 2017 President / Former Ceo $90,503 $3,620 THE BOMA PROJECT INC
Susan Stitely 2017 President $90,498 $18,442 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INDEPENDENT COLLEGES
Thomas Gregory Saylor 2014 Vice Preside $90,466 $15,259 VERMONT ASSOCIATES FOR TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT INC
Jill Doyle 2015 Finance Dir $90,425 $0 UNITED COUNSELING SERVICE OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC
Mary Paul Loomis 2016 Executive Director $90,405 $14,947 VERMONT ADULT LEARNING INC
Beth Sachs 2015 Co-Founder/Secretary $90,353 $12,232 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Gary Clark 2014 President $90,350 $22,342 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
Alexander L Aldrich 2013 Exc Dir - See Sch O $90,259 $5,382 VERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC
Dawn Provost 2017 Executive Dir. $90,202 $7,218 OM FISHER HOME INC
Russell E Spring 2016 Gen. Manager $90,193 $0 CONCRETE FOUNDATION INC
Konstantin Lomidze 2014 Svp Finance & Cfo [From 08/2014] $90,171 $6,084 WORLD LEARNING INC
Carol Bertrand 2017 Director Of Finance $90,126 $21,242 THE ORTON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Lorna Mattern 2016 Executive Di $90,106 $0 UNITED COUNSELING SERVICE OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC
William Claessens 2016 Cfo $90,096 $14,902 COUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Priscilla West Mph 2014 Executive Director $90,060 $4,503 VETERANS EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOC OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC
J Scott Lee 2013 Exec Directo $90,043 $2,652 ASSOCIATION FOR CORE TEXTS AND COURSES
Ed Oechslie 2013 Executive Dir. $90,012 $9,254 SPRING LAKE RANCH INC
Merten Bangemann- Johnson 2014 Chief Executive Officer $90,002 $0 GILMAN HOUSING TRUST INC
Charlie Smith 2014 President $90,000 $0 VERMONT ETV INC
Lynn Pilcher 2014 Executive Dir. $90,000 $31,128 SPRING LAKE RANCH INC
Daryl Burtnett 2014 Executive Director $90,000 $6,000 NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST
Lydia Taylor 2015 Interim Executive Dir (Term 2015) $90,000 $0 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Seth Boyd 2016 Executive Dir. $90,000 $19,500 CARLOS OTIS STRATTON MOUNTAIN CLINIC INC
Judith Robinson 2017 Executive Dir. $90,000 $0 COMING CLEAN INC
Simone Rueschemeyer 2014 Executive Di $90,000 $0 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT 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.