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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Pat Cassidy 2015 Co Operations Supervisor $60,909 $7,720 WHITE RIVER VALLEY AMBULANCE INC
Marcel Choquette 2016 Director Of Operations $60,889 $0 NORDIC SPIRIT SOCCER CLUB INC
Lisa M Byer 2014 Executive Dir. $60,887 $0 CATAMOUNT ACCESS TELEVISION CORPORATION
Nicole Clegg 2016 Vp Of Public Policy $60,858 $2,931 PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAINE ACTION FUND INC
Brenda Scalabrini 2015 Ex Dir / Treas $60,854 $0 GRANITE CITY HOUSING INC
Traci Moore 2013 Exe Director $60,808 $0 UNITED WAY OF RUTLAND COUNTY VERMONT INC
Wendy Beinner 2013 President/Ceo $60,759 $6,216 NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF VERMONT INC
Randal Smathers 2013 Asst. Director $60,752 $15,375 RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC T-A RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY
Tom Donahue 2015 Ex Dir Til 3/1 $60,736 $0 RUTLAND REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Martin Hahn 2013 Executive Di $60,692 $1,873 COMMUNITY CAPITAL OF VERMONT INC
Jim Curran 2017 Executive Director $60,658 $0 UNITED WAY OF LAMOILLE COUNTY INC
William Driscoll 2015 Vice President $60,650 $691 ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES OF VERMONT
Erin Buck 2016 Group Exercise Fitne $60,647 $1,559 SPORTS VENUE FOUNDATION
Mary Taylor 2014 Executive Direc $60,612 $950 CENTRAL VERMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Rosina Cannizzaro 2016 Executive Director $60,608 $19,989 VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC
Nick Warner 2016 Executive Director $60,567 $27,196 WINOOSKI VALLEY PARK DISTRICT
Lisa M Maxfield 2015 Cfo $60,562 $7,100 VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION
Kara Artus 2014 Executive Direc $60,540 $7,242 TRANSITION II INC
Jennifer Belton 2013 Executive Di $60,510 $239 NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY
Maureen Cregan Connolly 2016 Exec. Officer $60,501 $0 HOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN VERMONT
Rev Tm Moore 2013 Chairman $60,500 $0 FELLOWSHIP OF AILBE
Regina Rice Barker 2017 Executive Director $60,488 $0 VALLEY COURT DIVERSION PROGRAM INC
Sue Chase 2016 Executive Director $60,486 $0 CAREPARTNERS ADULT DAY CENTER INC
Chad Butt 2014 Executive Dir. $60,413 $6,996 MOBIUS INC
Karrie Thomas 2016 Executive Dir. $60,410 $600 NORTHERN FOREST CANOE TRAIL 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.