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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
John Vose 2013 Administrator $61,494 $7,408 UPPER VALLEY AMBULANCE INC
Mary Taylor 2015 Executive Direc $61,485 $987 CENTRAL VERMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Joel Schwartz 2014 Executive Director $61,451 $0 BARRE AREA DEVELOPMENT INC
Chad Butt 2015 Executive Dir. $61,418 $7,258 MOBIUS INC
Barbara Saunders 2013 Co-Director $61,372 $4,000 MARY JOHNSON CHILDRENS CENTER
Michael Connett 2016 Executive Director $61,333 $0 AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH STUDIES PROJECT INC
Mary Moulton 2013 Executive Di $61,323 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC
Jerold Goldberg 2013 Previous Executive Director $61,323 $1,840 BRATTLEBORO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Maria Fish 2013 Executive Direc $61,306 $0 KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Bobbi Gagne 2016 Executive Director $61,288 $0 SEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS TEAM OF WASHINGTON COUNTY
Marian E Koetsier 2013 Secretary $61,276 $31,696 THE WOODSTOCK FOUNDATION INC
Kathryn Finnie 2013 Executive Director $61,213 $0 VERMONT VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Jennifer Ottinger 2014 Business Manage $61,199 $0 HIGH FIVE ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC
Susan Boyer 2015 Executive Director $61,184 $9,695 VERMONT NURSES IN PARTNERSHIP INC
Jesse Bridges As Of 53017 2017 Executive Di $61,130 $4,774 UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC
Leisa Pollander 2015 Exec Directo $61,120 $6,702 SARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER
Lies Pasterkamp 2013 Employee Trustee $61,100 $14,827 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Ralph T Birdsey Jr 2014 Headmaster $61,097 $0 NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL
Maria Fish 2015 Executive Dir. $61,036 $8,580 KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Masha Ivanova 2014 Secretary $61,025 $14,940 RESEARCH CENTER FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC
Jennifer Belton 2014 Executive Diretor $61,020 $3,044 NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY
Eric Schulz 2016 Special Projects $61,011 $0 CONCRETE FOUNDATION INC
Lucinda Walker 2017 Director $60,997 $8,743 NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Johnathan T Gregg 2015 Founder $60,935 $5,652 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
Victoria Smith 2016 Executive Director $60,932 $16,337 KING STREET 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.