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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Mary Eversole 2017 Executive Director $76,180 $0 THE VERMONT INSURANCE AGENTS ASSOCIATION INC
Jason Frishman 2016 President $76,164 $0 NETWORKS INC
Priscilla Leng 2013 Business Mgr $76,120 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
James Grout 2013 Executive Dir. $76,059 $0 HIGH FIVE ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC
Larry Bayle 2016 Former Executive Director $75,989 $9,263 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF RUTLAND
Eric Bunge 2017 Managing Director $75,962 $36,050 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Steve Libby 2013 Executive Dir. $75,953 $7,229 VERMONT RIVER CONSERVANCY INC
Cindy Bruzzese Mpa 2015 Ex. Dir. $75,950 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK INC
Enid Wonnacott 2014 Executive Director $75,920 $0 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
Raymond Hathaway 2015 Executive Di $75,904 $0 SPECIALIZED COMMUNITY CARE
Nancy Rowden Brock 2017 Interim, Cfo $75,877 $12,050 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Michael Casey 2016 Coo $75,876 $0 MANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC
Joanna Kelly 2017 Finance Directo $75,769 $25,363 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
Ed Paquin 2016 Executive Di $75,763 $14,245 DISABILITY RIGHTS VERMONT INC
Ed Paquin 2017 Executive Di $75,763 $14,139 DISABILITY RIGHTS VERMONT INC
Charles Rattigan 2016 Executive Director $75,730 $0 VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC
Michael Casey 2015 Coo $75,712 $2,271 MANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC
Alexis Halbert 2017 Sr. Assoc. Of Progra $75,671 $20,427 THE ORTON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Karen Cedergren 2016 Vp-Branch Administration $75,662 $2,920 RIVER VALLEY CREDIT UNION
Robin Scheu 2013 Executive Dir. $75,625 $5,100 ADDISON COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Kristie Johnson 2016 Vp Of Business $75,618 $7,231 COLLEGE OF ST JOSEPH
Martin Hahn 2015 Executive Di $75,584 $2,818 COMMUNITY CAPITAL OF VERMONT INC
Cherryll Bunnell 2017 Chief Financial Officer $75,580 $12,534 RURAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INC
Elise Tillinghast 2017 Executive Director $75,573 $26,867 CENTER FOR WOODLANDS EDUCATION INC
Danny Hale 2017 Executive Director $75,528 $0 VERMONT ATV SPORTSMANS ASSOCIATION 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.