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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Sarah Adans-Kollitz 2016 Executive Director $55,956 $1,800 BURLINGTON CHILDRENS SPACE INC
Sarah Squirrell 2016 Executive Di $55,928 $2,730 BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE COUNCIL INC
Russell Hirschler 2016 Executive Direc $55,915 $0 UPPER VALLEY TRAILS ALLIANCE INC
Victoria Smith 2014 Executive Director $55,914 $15,720 KING STREET CENTER INC
Matthew Degroot 2017 Executive Director $55,908 $11,721 GLOBAL CAMPUSES FOUNDATION
Lucinda Walker 2015 Director $55,894 $5,803 NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Bruce Johnson Former 2013 Executive Dir. $55,886 $4,736 SPRINGFIELD AREA PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION
Meg Munson 2013 Exec Director $55,867 $0 VERMONT YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION
Deborah Hall 2016 Executive Di $55,847 $5,015 HOMELESS PREVENTION CENTER
Nicole Fournier Grisgraber 2017 Executive Director $55,828 $0 MEALS ON WHEELS OF LAMOILLE COUNTY INC
Pat Hadam 2014 Cfo $55,783 $0 HOUSING TRUST OF RUTLAND COUNTY INC
Barbara Frascella 2015 Business Mgr $55,769 $13,536 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
B Keith Huffman 2016 Secretary $55,745 $0 ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION RISK INSTITUTE INC
Lauren Merritt 2014 Executive Dir. $55,740 $0 STEPS PROGRAM INC
Kerri Duquette-Hoffman 2017 Executive Di $55,735 $2,400 WOMENSAFE INC
Joseph Manning 2013 Vp Of Finance $55,689 $8,979 GREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Eric Seyferth 2015 Director/Uha Chair $55,668 $2,227 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Douglas Anderson 2017 Executive Director $55,652 $1,640 TOWN HALL THEATER INC
Gregory Nelson 2015 Golf Pro $55,620 $5,544 RUTLAND COUNTRY CLUB INC
Susan Evans Mcclure 2016 Executive Di $55,620 $0 VSA VERMONT INC
Gloria Van Den Berg 2017 Executive Dir. $55,615 $0 ALYSSUM INC
Kirby Dunn 2013 Executive Director $55,614 $0 HOMESHARE VERMONT INC
Patrick Cody 2017 Director $55,614 $0 OKEMO VALLEY TV CORP
Walter D Manz 2017 Executive Director End 6/30/17 $55,597 $0 ESSEX RESCUE INC
Meg Munson 2016 Exec Director $55,594 $0 VERMONT YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION

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.