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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Enid Wonnacott 2015 Executive Director $74,981 $0 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
Leitha Cipriano 2017 Director $74,973 $20,904 BENNINGTON COUNTY COURT DIVERSION PROGRAM INC
Paul Cillo 2017 President $74,940 $0 PUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE INC
Jason Frishman 2015 President $74,931 $0 NETWORKS INC
Margaret Rocque 2015 Exec. Dir $74,920 $0 CAPITAL CITY HOUSING FOUNDATION INC
James Kane 2017 Director Of Finance $74,918 $13,245 GREENWOOD SCHOOL INC
Michael Gauthier 2014 Fiscal Director $74,906 $17,191 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
Carolyn Alderman 2014 Secretary $74,892 $0 VEPP INC
Cathleen Barkley 2014 Executive Di $74,891 $7,813 HOPE WORKS INC
Cathleen Barkley 2015 Executive Di $74,891 $7,813 HOPE WORKS INC
Andrew Mayer 2013 President $74,880 $0 ADDISON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Jane Paine 2013 Financial Director $74,851 $18,503 LAMOILLE HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Susanne Booth 2014 Dir $74,815 $0 SOJOURNS COMMUNITY CLINIC INC
Elizabeth Ready 2015 Executive Director $74,812 $0 JOHN W GRAHAM EMERGENCY SHELTER SERVICES INC
Elizabeth Stern 2014 Executive Direc $74,810 $4,930 CENTRAL VERMONT COUNCIL ON AGING INC
Linda Johnson 2013 Executive Direc $74,800 $3,273 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Marissa Parisi 2014 Executive Di $74,774 $9,492 HUNGER FREE VERMONT
Kristie Johnson 2015 Treasurer $74,750 $6,938 COLLEGE OF ST JOSEPH
Joyce Cameron 2017 Co-Executive Director $74,746 $5,918 LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INCORPORATED
Lori Fisher 2013 Secr/E.D. $74,713 $3,012 LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMITTEE INC
Michael Casey 2014 Coo $74,705 $3,900 MANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC
Andrea Bergeron 2017 Cfo $74,612 $12,660 FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD
Steve Geller 2013 Executive Director $74,584 $8,120 SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Judy Ribolini 2017 Fmr Corp Scrtry $74,487 $26,822 VERMONT BANKERS ASSOCIATION INC
Margaret Rocque 2014 Exec. Dir $74,473 $0 CAPITAL CITY HOUSING FOUNDATION 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.