Vermont Nonprofit Navigator
Explore the organizations and people that power Vermont's $6.8 billion nonprofit economy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catherin Kalkstein | 2016 | Executive Director | $56,639 | $0 | WASHINGTON COUNTY DIVERSION PROGRAM INC |
| Douglas Anderson | 2016 | Executive Director | $56,615 | $0 | TOWN HALL THEATER INC |
| Robert White | 2015 | Executive Di | $56,615 | $0 | NORTHWEST UNIT FOR SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS INC |
| Dexter Mahaffey | 2014 | Head Of Scho | $56,606 | $8,259 | VERMONT COMMONS SCHOOL |
| Jay Nichols | 2017 | Executive Dir. | $56,602 | $0 | VERMONT PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION INC |
| Renee Swain | 2016 | Executive Di | $56,537 | $308 | UMBRELLA OF ST JOHNSBURY INC |
| Pat Hadam | 2013 | Cfo | $56,526 | $2,000 | HOUSING TRUST OF RUTLAND COUNTY INC |
| Russell Hirschler | 2017 | Executive Direc | $56,500 | $1,695 | UPPER VALLEY TRAILS ALLIANCE INC |
| Victoria Sterling | 2013 | Executive Director | $56,483 | $6,843 | WOMENS COMMUNITY CENTER INC |
| Erin Fernandez | 2016 | Executive Director | $56,448 | $3,840 | VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI & SPORTS |
| Joe Leclair | 2016 | Executive Director | $56,442 | $0 | SAMARITAN HOUSE INC |
| Leonard Brown | 2013 | Executive Director | $56,440 | $0 | WHITE RIVER COUNCIL ON AGING |
| Kirby Dunn | 2014 | Executive Director | $56,437 | $7,242 | HOMESHARE VERMONT INC |
| William Edson | 2013 | Chief Operations Officer | $56,419 | $0 | MIDDLEBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC |
| Ilana Snyder | 2014 | Co-Director | $56,410 | $5,000 | MARY JOHNSON CHILDRENS CENTER |
| Sarah Launderville | 2013 | Executive Di | $56,353 | $20,900 | VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING VCIL |
| Leonard Brown | 2015 | Executive Director | $56,350 | $0 | WHITE RIVER COUNCIL ON AGING |
| Cynthia Tabor | 2017 | Executive Director | $56,308 | $0 | VERMONT FEDERATION OF FAMILIES FOR CHILDRENS MENTAL HEALTH |
| Tom Roberts | 2015 | Executive Director | $56,289 | $13,115 | VITAL COMMUNITIES INC |
| Laura Amell | 2013 | Assistant Secretary | $56,264 | $34,440 | NORWICH UNIVERSITY |
| Dick Thodal | 2016 | Executive Director | $56,262 | $0 | MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY TV |
| Karla Cosgriff | 2014 | Executive Director | $56,250 | $0 | CIRENAS INC |
| Arthur Schmidt | 2015 | President | $56,250 | $0 | RETREAT FARM |
| Jim Morin | 2014 | Trustee | $56,209 | $0 | TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC |
| Gregory H Calvin | 2017 | Front End Manager | $56,207 | $5,544 | RUTLAND COUNTRY CLUB 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.
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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.