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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Harry Schoppmann Iii 2015 Lieutenant $60,397 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Kim Roberge 2016 Exec. Direct $60,389 $0 CRAFTSBURY COMMUNITY CARE CENTER
Barbara Frascella 2017 Business Mgr $60,372 $14,566 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Jan-Roberta Tarjan 2013 Executive Director $60,352 $5,588 DISMAS OF VERMONT INC
Amy Kelsey 2015 Executive Di $60,352 $5,735 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Laurie Emerson 2017 Executive Director $60,351 $0 NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF VERMONT INC
Barbara Saunders 2016 Co-Director $60,344 $6,000 MARY JOHNSON CHILDRENS CENTER
Amy Kelsey 2014 Executive Di $60,328 $5,533 CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION
Jonathan Hammond 2016 Hosmer Point Camp Di $60,327 $0 CONCRETE FOUNDATION INC
Tracy Ostler 2015 Executive Director $60,324 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC
Sarah Launderville 2014 Executive Di $60,316 $19,095 VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING VCIL
Sarah Launderville 2015 Executive Di $60,316 $21,374 VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING VCIL
James Hafferman 2016 Executive Dir. $60,298 $0 VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC
Kirby Dunn 2015 Executive Director $60,289 $7,685 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Sherri Molleur 2015 Cheif Business $60,270 $44,573 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Connie Kincaid-Brown Term 93016 2016 Director Of Finance $60,263 $8,852 GREENWOOD SCHOOL INC
Regan Shaw 2015 Chief Financial Officer $60,243 $3,789 VETERANS EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOC OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC
Daniel Casey 2013 Executive Director $60,223 $0 BARRE OPERA HOUSE INC
Laurie Emerson 2016 Executive Director $60,204 $0 NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF VERMONT INC
Gail Ostrout 2013 Cheif Financial Officer $60,195 $0 GILMAN HOUSING TRUST INC
Avaloy Lanning 2017 Executive Di $60,150 $0 NEWSTORY CENTER INC
John Castle 2014 Registrar $60,094 $25,576 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Sue Chase 2014 Executive Director / Secre $60,063 $0 CAREPARTNERS ADULT DAY CENTER INC
Linda Haltinner 2014 Chair $60,058 $0 SOJOURNS COMMUNITY CLINIC INC
Jeff Hunsberger 2015 Assoc Director $60,050 $629 WASHINGTON COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU AND BOYS & GIRLS CLUB

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.