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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kimberley Gouger 2013 Vp-Consumer Loans $66,157 $2,553 RIVER VALLEY CREDIT UNION
Kristine Karge 2013 Vice President $66,098 $0 NETWORKS INC
Heather Hobart 2014 Ex-Director $66,059 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY COURT DIVERSION PROGRAM INC
Ginger Bartlett 2015 Finance Manager $66,010 $4,130 WASHINGTON COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU AND BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
Robin Way 2016 Executive Director $65,988 $6,369 CHAMPLAIN ISLANDERS DEVELOPING ESSENTIAL RESOURCES
Sarah Waring 2016 Executive Dir. $65,972 $0 THE CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY
Brian Donahue 2017 Cfo, Vp $65,970 $12,405 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Pat Hadam 2015 Cfo $65,833 $0 HOUSING TRUST OF RUTLAND COUNTY INC
Sarah Lemnah 2017 Executive Dir. $65,761 $5,700 CANCER PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAM INC
Patricia Nisco 2016 Business Manager $65,745 $5,014 LONG TRAIL SCHOOL INC
Lauren Merritt 2016 Coo $65,720 $18,472 STEPS PROGRAM INC
Linda Wichlac 2015 Executive Director $65,711 $7,523 BENNINGTON PROJECT INDEPENDENCE INC
Ejay Bishop 2014 Facility Manager $65,674 $0 UNION ARENA INC
Jody Fried 2016 Executive Director $65,618 $0 CATAMOUNT FILM & ARTS CO
Michael 2013 Valentine $65,616 $0 RUTLAND REGION COMMUNITY TELEVISION
Marcel Choquette 2017 Director Of Operations $65,613 $0 NORDIC SPIRIT SOCCER CLUB INC
June Onorato 2015 Assistant Director Of Finance $65,602 $3,121 BATTENKILL VALLEY HEALTH CENTER INC
Geoff Gevalt 2015 Executive Dir. $65,546 $15,263 YOUNG WRITERS PROJECT INC
Pat Hadam 2016 Cfo $65,530 $0 HOUSING TRUST OF RUTLAND COUNTY INC
Lorita Adkins 2016 Executive Di $65,489 $10,009 ELMHILL INC
Amy Kelsey Former 2017 Executive Di $65,447 $6,144 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Mary Margaret Sloan 2013 Executive Director $65,421 $12,089 VITAL COMMUNITIES INC
Jeffrey Potvin 2015 Bus Mgr/Fin Sec $65,388 $40,856 UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING & PIPE
Cathleen Lamberton 2017 Executive Vp $65,387 $0 ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF VERMONT INC
Aaron Rakow 2017 Ceo $65,285 $0 STEPS PROGRAM 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.