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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Sandra Dragon 2013 Executive Dir. $75,500 $15,152 ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES OF VERMONT
Elizabeth Ready 2014 Executive Director $75,490 $0 JOHN W GRAHAM EMERGENCY SHELTER SERVICES INC
Helen Hossley 2017 Acting Ceo $75,485 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS INC
Maureen Danielczyk 2014 Executive Dir. $75,480 $6,150 TRINITY CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Johnathan T Gregg 2014 Trustee $75,443 $5,497 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
Johnathan T Gregg 2013 Trustee $75,443 $2,263 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
Gail Ostrout 2015 Cheif Financial Officer $75,383 $0 GILMAN HOUSING TRUST INC
Eric Bunge 2016 Managing Director $75,350 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Bruce Bouchard 2015 Executive Dir. $75,345 $0 PARAMOUNT CENTER INC
Ed Leclair 2015 Executive Direc $75,341 $13,210 THE CIRCUS BARN INCORPORATED
Thomas Fahner 2013 Co-Executive Director $75,334 $0 NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES
Kevin Christopher 2015 Exec Director $75,289 $6,934 LAKE CHAMPLAIN ACCESS TELEVISION INC
John Whalen 2013 Trustee $75,232 $0 SMOKEY HOUSE CENTER
Peter Jacobsen 2015 Executive Di $75,194 $9,385 VERMONT COMMITTEE FOR AIDS RESOURCES EDUCATION & SERVICES
Cherryll Bunnell 2013 Financial Manager $75,184 $0 RURAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INC
Kevin Christopher 2014 Exec Director $75,135 $7,940 LAKE CHAMPLAIN ACCESS TELEVISION INC
Peter Jacobsen 2016 Executive Di $75,117 $11,160 VERMONT COMMITTEE FOR AIDS RESOURCES EDUCATION & SERVICES
Shaun Fielder 2015 Executive Director $75,112 $5,610 VERMONT RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION
Mary Alice Mckenzie 2014 Exec. Direct $75,029 $1,946 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC
Hattie Johnson 2014 Executive Director $75,006 $0 VERMONTS CAMP TAKUMTA
Carol Dunne 2016 Producing Artistic Director $75,000 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Mary Lawlor 2014 Executive Dir. $75,000 $0 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL MIDWIVES INC
Evelyn Sirois 2016 Ceo $75,000 $0 MEMBERS 1ST CREDIT UNION
Virginia Mcginn 2014 Executive Direc $75,000 $0 CENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES INC
Marissa Parisi 2015 Executive Di $74,995 $9,718 HUNGER FREE VERMONT

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.