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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Sue Chase 2015 Executive Director / Secre $59,109 $0 CAREPARTNERS ADULT DAY CENTER INC
Pamela Fenimore 2013 Executive Director $59,045 $4,554 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BURLINGTON VT INC
Peter Youngbaer 2015 Executive Dir. $59,019 $0 PEOPLES HEALTH AND WELLNESS CLINIC
Sherri Molleur 2016 Interim Cfo $59,014 $62,062 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Inessa Muse Through 0617 2016 Business Manager $59,000 $19,666 VERMONT ACADEMY
Eric Rhomberg 2013 Secretary $58,997 $0 COMPASS SCHOOL INC
John Grainger 2016 Fitness Director $58,978 $1,769 SPORTS VENUE FOUNDATION
Alicia Sharp 2013 Secretary $58,937 $0 VEPP INC
Michael Wright 2013 Admin. Director $58,933 $0 CALEDONIA-ESSEX AREA AMBULANCE
Jeremy Bradley 2017 Head Swim Coach $58,919 $6,492 STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD
Daria Carden 2014 Assist To The Ed $58,898 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
Michael Coppinger 2016 Executive Direc $58,887 $2,293 DOWNTOWN RUTLAND PARTNERSHIP INC
Leonard Brown 2016 Executive Director $58,870 $0 WHITE RIVER COUNCIL ON AGING
Sarah Adans-Kollitz 2017 Executive Director $58,864 $1,800 BURLINGTON CHILDRENS SPACE INC
Tammy Mosher 2017 Executive Director $58,861 $0 STRATTON MOUNTAIN & VALLEY COMMUNITY BENEFIT FOUNDATION
Jane Nesbitt 2017 Executive Director $58,699 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INCORPORATED
Lucinda Walker 2016 Director $58,690 $8,224 NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Anne Kraemer Diaz 2016 Executive Director $58,667 $0 WUQU KAWOQ SA
Marcel Choquette 2015 Director Of Operations $58,660 $0 NORDIC SPIRIT SOCCER CLUB INC
William Driscoll 2014 Vice President $58,650 $907 ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES OF VERMONT
Peter Youngbaer 2013 Executive Dir. $58,630 $0 PEOPLES HEALTH AND WELLNESS CLINIC
Donna Bailey 2016 Co-Exec. Dir $58,594 $0 PARENT - CHILD CENTER INC
Susan Bloomer 2016 Co-Exec. Dir $58,594 $0 PARENT - CHILD CENTER INC
Rebecca Elder 2013 Secretary $58,589 $5,016 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Lynn Pilcher 2013 Executive Dir. $58,574 $24,671 SPRING LAKE RANCH 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.