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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lynne Fonteneau-Mccann 2015 Library Direct. $57,075 $9,990 BENNINGTON FREE LIBRARY
Pamela Pearson 2014 President $57,068 $0 INTERNATIONAL CRYOSPHERE CLIMATE INITIATIVE
Alexander Aldrich 2017 Former Executive Director $57,026 $2,383 VERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC
Gary De Carolis 2015 Executive Di $57,000 $0 TURNING POINT CENTER OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY INC
Priscilla B Menninger 2014 Director $57,000 $0 NORTH AMERICAN HOCKEY ACADEMY INC
Priscilla B Menninger 2015 Director $57,000 $0 NORTH AMERICAN HOCKEY ACADEMY INC
Meg Munson 2017 Exec Director $56,987 $0 VERMONT YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION
Victoria Smith 2015 Executive Director $56,984 $18,388 KING STREET CENTER INC
Mary Beth Watt 2017 Rn $56,971 $5,555 OM FISHER HOME INC
Elaine Dufresne 2015 Former Dir. Of Admin $56,944 $10,500 VERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC
Darcie Mccann 2014 Executive Director $56,908 $650 NORTHEAST KINGDOM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Kathleen Holsopple 2014 Executive Director $56,889 $0 VERMONT FEDERATION OF FAMILIES FOR CHILDRENS MENTAL HEALTH
Linda Dyer 2014 Founder $56,867 $0 DRAGONHEART VERMONT INCORPORATED
Teena Betourney 2015 Trustee $56,841 $0 MIDDLEBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC
Nicholas Tarr 2017 Executive Director $56,804 $11,644 WHITE RIVER VALLEY AMBULANCE INC
Lucien St Onge 2013 Finance Director $56,798 $9,057 ORLEANS-ESSEX VNA & HOSPICE INC
Cathleen Lamberton 2016 Executive Vp $56,784 $0 ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF VERMONT INC
Jody Fried 2014 Executive Director $56,726 $0 CATAMOUNT FILM & ARTS CO
Charles Rattigan 2014 Executive Director $56,724 $0 VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC
Erick Tichonuk 2014 Exec. Dir. (5/1-12/31/14) $56,723 $5,816 LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INCORPORATED
Sean Hunt 2017 Customer Service Man $56,705 $6,492 STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD
Dave Pfannenstein 2016 Executive Dir. $56,654 $0 VERMONT GOLF ASSOCIATION INC
Gabrielle Stebbins 2013 Executive Dir. $56,650 $6,000 RENEWABLE ENERGY VERMONT
Sheldon Miller 2016 It & Marketing $56,648 $0 CONCRETE FOUNDATION INC
Cheryl Read 2016 Chief Administrative Officer $56,647 $10,036 CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TR

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.

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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.