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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lucia Atwood 2017 Vice President $80,738 $0 CHARLES AND RAY EAMES HOUSE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC
Peter Odeirna 2013 Executive Director $80,730 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION
John Broderick 2014 Executive Director $80,729 $0 SHIRES HOUSING INC
Elizabeth Ready 2016 Executive Director $80,684 $0 JOHN W GRAHAM EMERGENCY SHELTER SERVICES INC
Lesley Koenig 2017 Former Managing Director $80,682 $6,868 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Shaun Fielder 2017 Executive Director $80,671 $6,782 VERMONT RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION
Julie Iffland 2013 Executive Di $80,609 $0 RANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Timothy Smith 2015 Executive Director $80,586 $23,467 FRANKLIN COUNTY INDUSTRIAL
Julie Iffland 2017 Executive Di $80,566 $0 RANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Julie Iffland 2016 Executive Di $80,566 $0 RANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Julie Iffland 2015 Executive Di $80,566 $0 RANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Julie Iffland 2015 Secretary/Treasurer $80,566 $0 RANDOLPH HOUSE HOLDINGS INC
Paula Baker 2014 Director $80,547 $14,740 RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC T-A RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY
Joseph E Petrick 2015 Vp Student Life $80,505 $11,849 GREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Donna L Baker 2015 Ceo $80,432 $7,800 GREEN MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY NETWORKINC
Elizabeth H Howard 2013 President/Trustee $80,400 $6,589 JOURNEY NORTH
Greg Macdonald 2017 Cfo $80,399 $8,520 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Beth Sachs 2017 Secretary $80,339 $10,018 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
David Mullin 2015 Executive Di $80,325 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Jane Newland 2013 Senior Vice President $80,302 $9,194 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Catherine Iacuzzi 2014 Executive Director $80,280 $16,006 MAPLE LEAF FARM ASS INC
Timothy Smith 2016 Executive Director $80,192 $15,476 FRANKLIN COUNTY INDUSTRIAL
Clay Odell 2016 Executive Director $80,160 $9,442 UPPER VALLEY AMBULANCE INC
Steve James 2014 Chief Academic $80,113 $21,417 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Margarita Fernandez 2017 Executive Dir. $80,080 $0 VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITIUTE 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.