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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Ethan Grimes 2017 Vp-Mortgage Lending $74,434 $2,760 RIVER VALLEY CREDIT UNION
Stephanie Lane 2016 Executive Director $74,413 $0 SHIRES HOUSING INC
Roger S Strauss Phd 2013 Exec Pres/Board Sec/Treasurer $74,410 $0 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Shireen Mcnabb 2017 President $74,385 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
Jane Campbell 2016 Executive Dir. $74,375 $1,913 VERMONT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Mary Grant 2013 Executive Director $74,352 $0 RURAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INC
Ginger Bartlett 2017 Assoc Dir Of $74,313 $4,622 WASHINGTON COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU AND BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
Dolly Fleming 2015 Executive Di $74,296 $11,859 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Lawrence G Jensen 2016 President & Ceo $74,250 $0 COLLEGE OF ST JOSEPH
Dolly Fleming 2014 Executive Di $74,244 $11,633 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Andrew Jackson 2015 Coo $74,144 $0 BRANDON AREA RESCUE SQUAD INC
Margaret Rocque 2013 Exec. Dir $74,135 $0 CAPITAL CITY HOUSING FOUNDATION INC
Roger S Strauss Phd 2014 Board Sec/Treasurer/Exec. President $74,130 $0 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Joseph Petrick 2016 Vp Student Life $74,122 $10,275 GREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Mary Eversole 2016 Executive Director $74,100 $0 THE VERMONT INSURANCE AGENTS ASSOCIATION INC
Dana O Lundy 2015 Executive Director $74,079 $4,400 NEW ENGLAND HEAD START ASSOCIATION
Tim Gallagan 2016 Cfo $74,064 $0 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Susanne Shapiro 2013 Executive Director $73,916 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Pat Edwards 2013 Operations Supervisor $73,909 $4,832 WHITE RIVER VALLEY AMBULANCE INC
Elizabeth Schlegel 2017 Executive Dir. $73,887 $0 ALCHEMIST FOUNDATION INC
Shaun Fielder 2014 Executive Director $73,872 $5,509 VERMONT RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION
Elizabeth Ready 2013 Executive Director $73,852 $0 JOHN W GRAHAM EMERGENCY SHELTER SERVICES INC
Cornelia Carey 2013 Executive Di $73,824 $15,422 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
Margaret Harris 2013 Executive Director $73,808 $12,513 THE BOMA PROJECT INC
Elaine Dufresne 2013 Dir. Of Admin - See Sch O $73,802 $2,844 VERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS 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.