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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jane Simpson 2016 Chief Operating Officer $58,526 $7,099 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
James Alasdair Groves 2016 President & Executive Director $58,523 $8,231 TWIN STATE CHRISTIAN COUNSELING INC
Colleen Lafont 2015 Interim Director Of Finance $58,452 $1,816 CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Kathleen O'Connor 2015 Executive Director $58,384 $1,625 BRATTLEBORO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Mark Helijas 2013 Executive Director $58,372 $9,477 SECOND WIND FOUNDATION
Dave Pfannenstein 2017 Executive Dir. $58,344 $0 VERMONT GOLF ASSOCIATION INC
Kathleen Colson 2016 Ceo $58,333 $1,167 THE BOMA PROJECT INC
Sue Chase 2013 Executive Director / Secre $58,286 $0 CAREPARTNERS ADULT DAY CENTER INC
Catherine Kalkstein 2017 Executive Director $58,203 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY DIVERSION PROGRAM INC
Rosina Cannizzaro 2015 Executive Director $58,200 $13,284 VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC
Elizabeth Holmes 2016 Trustee $58,200 $4,893 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Suzanne Smith 2013 Co Ex Dir $58,180 $0 ONION RIVER CROSSROADS INC
Barbara Saunders 2014 Co-Director $58,117 $5,000 MARY JOHNSON CHILDRENS CENTER
Ilana Snyder 2013 Co-Director $58,115 $4,000 MARY JOHNSON CHILDRENS CENTER
Amy Sadkin 2016 Executive Director $58,107 $1,707 NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY
Marypat Larrabee 2014 Director $58,102 $0 ST ALBANS FREE LIBRARY
Paul Craven 2014 Executive Dir. $58,099 $0 VERMONT LOW INCOME TRUST FOR ELECTRICITY INC
Regina Rice Barker 2016 Executive Director $58,089 $0 VALLEY COURT DIVERSION PROGRAM INC
Harry Schoppmann Iii 2014 Captain $58,065 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Nick Warner 2015 Executive Director $58,038 $24,872 WINOOSKI VALLEY PARK DISTRICT
Rob Schultz 2015 Executive Direc $58,031 $21,918 COVER HOME REPAIR INC
Kathleen Holsopple 2015 Executive Director $58,022 $0 VERMONT FEDERATION OF FAMILIES FOR CHILDRENS MENTAL HEALTH
Barbara Frascella 2016 Business Mgr $58,009 $13,780 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Catherin Kalkstein 2015 Executive Director $58,001 $0 WASHINGTON COUNTY DIVERSION PROGRAM INC
Denise Smith 2016 Executive Di $58,000 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN 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.