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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Larry Bayle 2014 Executive Direc $78,009 $6,810 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF RUTLAND
Russell Bradbury-Carlin 2016 Executive Dir. $78,000 $0 YOUTH SERVICES
Bruce Bouchard 2016 Executive Dir. $78,000 $0 PARAMOUNT CENTER INC
Ed Leclair 2013 Executive Direc $78,000 $10,180 THE CIRCUS BARN INCORPORATED
Carol Nardino 2016 Secretery $77,994 $0 LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
Michael Gauthier 2013 Fiscal Director $77,974 $15,260 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
Gary Clark 2013 President $77,971 $21,037 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
Joe Patrissi 2015 Executive Director $77,945 $9,169 NORTH EAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Linda Johnson 2015 Executive Direc $77,918 $6,285 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Guy O Stallworthy 2014 President/Ceo $77,846 $3,299 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Kandi Thermansen 2015 Chief Administrative Offic $77,818 $0 CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TR
David Cannamela 2013 Executive Director $77,809 $16,099 FRANCIS FOUNDATION INC
Kristine Bickford 2016 Executive Director $77,800 $13,544 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BURLINGTON VT INC
Adam Kane 2017 Executive Director $77,748 $0 FAIRBANKS MUSEUM AND PLANETARIUM
Kevin Christopher 2017 Exec Director $77,729 $9,749 LAKE CHAMPLAIN ACCESS TELEVISION INC
Michael Casey 2017 Ceo $77,727 $0 MANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC
Josh Smith 2016 Executive Director $77,725 $14,795 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Laurie Aunchman 2017 President $77,721 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Geoff Gevalt 2014 Executive Dir. $77,668 $19,171 YOUNG WRITERS PROJECT INC
Peter Odeirna 2014 Executive Director $77,625 $16,913 BENNINGTON COUNTY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION
Robert Ellis 2014 Former Cfo $77,563 $0 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Benjamin Cadwallader 2017 Executive Director $77,508 $10,792 VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
Caprice Hover 2015 Executive Dir. $77,499 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY PARENT-CHILD CENTER INC
Paul Cillo 2015 President $77,480 $0 PUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE INC
Charles Rattigan 2017 Executive Director $77,401 $0 VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE 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.