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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Deanna Jones 2016 Executive Director $65,265 $0 WOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING
Daniel Casey 2016 Executive Director $65,256 $0 BARRE OPERA HOUSE INC
Jim Lovinsky 2015 Executive Di $65,250 $0 LAMOILLE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC
Jeffrey Potvin 2014 Bus Mgr/Fin Sec $65,230 $43,716 UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING & PIPE
Emily Boedecker 2015 Executive Di $65,229 $652 LOCAL MOTION INC
Joseph Ferrada 2016 Co Exec Dire $65,177 $6,251 WASHINGTON COUNTY FAMILY CENTER
Gail Devine 2016 Executive Director $65,112 $0 WOODSTOCK RECREATION CENTER INC
Karen Robinson 2017 Cfo And Secr $65,100 $0 AWAKENING SANCTUARY INC
Scott Johnson 2015 Executive Di $65,018 $0 LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC
Kathy Finnie 2014 Executive Director $65,000 $0 VERMONT VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
James Goudie 2016 Director Of Coaching $65,000 $0 NORDIC SPIRIT SOCCER CLUB INC
Rev Tm Moore 2017 Chairman $65,000 $0 FELLOWSHIP OF AILBE
Cara Robecheck 2016 Executive Dir. $65,000 $0 VERMONT ENERGY EDUCATION PROGRAM INCORPORATED
Sarah Corry 2017 Executive Di $65,000 $0 PURPLE HEARTS REUNITED INC
Nancy C Wick 2016 Executive Direc $65,000 $0 VERMONT TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
Robert Lake 2014 Ceo $65,000 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CREDIT UNION
Nancy C Wick 2014 Executive Direc $65,000 $4,071 VERMONT TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
Andrea Cohen 2013 Executive Direc $65,000 $1,560 VERMONT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Victoria Sterling 2016 Executive Director $65,000 $7,376 WOMENS COMMUNITY CENTER INC
Elizabeth Gamache 2017 Vp For Grants And Community Investment $64,991 $1,540 VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Randal Smathers 2014 Asst. Director $64,971 $19,391 RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC T-A RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY
Kara Artus 2015 Executive Direc $64,959 $8,392 TRANSITION II INC
David St Germain 2015 Faculty Trustee $64,914 $10,559 COLLEGE OF ST JOSEPH
Nancy Rockett Eldridge 2017 Ceo $64,903 $9,873 NATIONAL WELL HOME NETWORK INC
Jeffrey Potvin 2017 Bus Mgr/Fin Sec $64,873 $48,226 UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING & PIPE

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.