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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Ginger Bartlett 2013 Finance Manager $64,858 $3,939 WASHINGTON COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU AND BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
Paul Craven 2015 Executive Dir. $64,837 $0 VERMONT LOW INCOME TRUST FOR ELECTRICITY INC
Ethan Grimes 2016 Vp-Mortgage Lending $64,835 $2,388 RIVER VALLEY CREDIT UNION
Elizabeth O'Brien 2014 Executive Di $64,800 $0 KINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS
Michelle Franklin 2017 Treasurer $64,752 $0 WATERBURY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Joel Schwartz 2013 Executive Director $64,718 $0 BARRE AREA DEVELOPMENT INC
Robert Fanzoni 2013 Exec. Director $64,714 $0 CATV INC
James Goudie 2014 Dir Operations And Coaching $64,699 $3,458 NORDIC SPIRIT SOCCER CLUB INC
Sally Borden 2017 Executive Director $64,694 $18,120 KIDSAFE COLLABORATIVE INC
Sarah Lemnah 2016 Executive Dir. $64,591 $5,712 CANCER PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAM INC
Marian E Koetsier 2015 Secretary $64,546 $32,628 THE WOODSTOCK FOUNDATION INC
Peter Youngbaer 2017 Executive Di $64,510 $2,341 PEOPLES HEALTH AND WELLNESS CLINIC
Scott Johnson 2014 Executive Di $64,499 $1,000 LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC
Angela Wells 2015 Interim Ex Dir $64,492 $1,230 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Peggy Degoosh-Hitchener 2017 Executive Director - No Voting Rights $64,456 $0 VERMONT CONGREGATIONAL HOME INC
Brenda Seitz 2013 Dir Of Administ $64,442 $5,883 INSPIRE FOR AUTISM INC
Bill Neukomm 2017 Executive Direc $64,361 $0 COVER HOME REPAIR INC
Sarah Launderville 2016 Executive Di $64,318 $21,914 VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING VCIL
Jess Wilson 2016 Executive Director $64,302 $10,953 REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION NETWORK INC
Jacquie Werner-Gavrin 2014 Director $64,278 $0 RED CEDAR SCHOOL INC
Scott Johnson 2013 Executive Di $64,272 $0 LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC
Ejay Bishop 2015 Facility Manager $64,233 $0 UNION ARENA INC
John Bowmer 2014 Co Operations Supervisor $64,197 $7,964 WHITE RIVER VALLEY AMBULANCE INC
Claire Kendall 2016 Co Exec Dire $64,179 $3,646 WASHINGTON COUNTY FAMILY CENTER
Joseph Ferrada 2015 Co Exec Dire $64,179 $6,977 WASHINGTON COUNTY FAMILY CENTER

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.