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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
James Franklin 2014 Dir Of Coaching $62,292 $0 NORDIC SPIRIT SOCCER CLUB INC
Mark Podgwaite 2013 Director Of Operations $62,246 $4,643 LYNDON RESCUE INC
Catherine Delaura 2017 Executive Director $62,223 $0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC EDUCATION AND MENTORING PROJECT INC
Kathy Finnie 2017 Executive Director $62,216 $0 VERMONT VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Susan Boyer Rb Rn Med Fahcep 2013 Executive Director $62,191 $497 VERMONT NURSES IN PARTNERSHIP INC
Pamela Fenimore 2014 Executive Director $62,158 $2,731 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BURLINGTON VT INC
Patrick Sheehan 2016 Exec. Direct $62,097 $1,735 CHITTENDON COUNTY COURT DIVERSION INC
Masha Ivanova 2016 Secretary $62,071 $17,070 RESEARCH CENTER FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC
Rosina Cannizzaro 2014 Executive Director $62,038 $13,285 VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC
Nicole Bachand 2015 Assoc Director $62,032 $4,107 WASHINGTON COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU AND BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
Lisa M Maxfield 2016 Cfo $62,017 $7,472 VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION
Cara Robecheck 2015 Executive Dir. $62,000 $0 VERMONT ENERGY EDUCATION PROGRAM INCORPORATED
Sean Troland 2017 General Mana $62,000 $19,627 CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC
Victoria Sterling 2014 Executive Director $62,000 $6,257 WOMENS COMMUNITY CENTER INC
Karl Lauren 2017 Facility Manager $62,000 $6,758 WINDHAM FOUNDATION
Edward Antczak 2015 Executive Di $62,000 $0 VERMONT FLIGHT ACADEMY INC
Brenda Scalabrini 2014 Ex Dir / Treas $61,959 $0 GRANITE CITY HOUSING INC
Joel Schwartz 2015 Executive Director $61,950 $0 BARRE AREA DEVELOPMENT INC
Nicole Lapointe 2015 Ex. Director $61,914 $0 NORTHERN VERMONT AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC
Mark Podgwaite 2014 Director Of Operations $61,911 $4,574 LYNDON RESCUE INC
Ilana Snyder 2015 Co-Director $61,898 $5,500 MARY JOHNSON CHILDRENS CENTER
Karen Robinson 2016 Cfo And Secr $61,886 $0 AWAKENING SANCTUARY INC
Daniel Casey 2015 Executive Director $61,850 $0 BARRE OPERA HOUSE INC
Brendan Leonard 2015 Vice President Of Finance & Cfo $61,846 $0 GREATER BURLINGTON YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC
Nicole Lapointe 2016 Ex. Director $61,843 $0 NORTHERN VERMONT AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER 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.