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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Seth B Bongartz 2015 President $81,500 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Seth B Bongartz 2014 President $81,500 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Karl N Larson 2016 Course Manager $81,500 $0 RUTLAND COUNTRY CLUB INC
Seth B Bongartz 2017 President $81,500 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Travis Marcotte 2014 Executive Director $81,500 $5,964 INTERVALE CENTER INC
Joe Patrissi 2014 Executive Director $81,319 $8,766 NORTH EAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Lesley Koenig 2015 Managing Director $81,279 $7,490 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Kristina Senna 2016 Cfo $81,266 $15,684 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Steve Harris 2014 Chief Information Officer $81,178 $23,841 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Dale Robb 2015 Ceo $81,154 $11,067 RECOVERY HOUSE INC
Hattie Johnson 2016 Executive Di $81,144 $0 VERMONTS CAMP TAKUMTA
Linda Johnson 2017 Executive Direc $81,119 $5,155 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Lauren Merritt 2017 Coo $81,073 $18,023 STEPS PROGRAM INC
Tracy Ostler 2016 Executive Director $81,063 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC
Frank Miglorie 2013 Former President $80,987 $11,036 COLLEGE OF ST JOSEPH
Wendy Rice 2017 Former Executive Director $80,975 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Kenneth Page 2017 Past Ex Dir $80,860 $0 VERMONT PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION INC
Cathy Conway 2013 Vice President $80,842 $9,254 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Adam Grinold 2015 Executive Director $80,814 $885 THE BRATTLEBORO DEVELOPMENT CREDIT CORPORATION
Bobbi Gagne 2015 Executive Direc $80,804 $0 SEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS TEAM OF WASHINGTON COUNTY
Bobbi Gagne 2013 Executive Direc $80,791 $0 SEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS TEAM OF WASHINGTON COUNTY
James Stewart 2015 Former Exec Dir $80,780 $0 RUTLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Sara Kobylenski 2013 Executive Director $80,769 $1,500 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
James Hathaway 2016 President & Ceo $80,758 $14,827 MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF VERMONT
Holly Morehouse 2014 Executive Director $80,738 $4,448 VERMONT AFTERSCHOOL 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.