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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kevin Romano 2017 Rescue Chief $55,509 $10,788 CHARLOTTE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES INC
Kathleen Holsopple 2013 Executive Director $55,481 $0 VERMONT FEDERATION OF FAMILIES FOR CHILDRENS MENTAL HEALTH
Masha Ivanova 2017 Vice-President $55,474 $15,866 RESEARCH CENTER FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC
Gloria Van Den Berg 2014 Executive Director $55,385 $0 VERMONT PSYCHIATRIC SURVIVORS INC
Pat Cassidy 2014 Co Operations Supervisor $55,361 $7,417 WHITE RIVER VALLEY AMBULANCE INC
Charles A Meeks 2017 Maint. Supervisor $55,360 $5,382 OM FISHER HOME INC
Kathy Lavoie 2015 Executive Director $55,350 $0 FRANKLIN GRAND ISLE WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC
Eric Seyferth Md 2013 Trustee/Uha Chair $55,338 $2,213 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Dan Smith 2016 President & Ceo $55,330 $8,283 VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Sarah Adans-Kollitz 2015 Executive Director $55,292 $0 BURLINGTON CHILDRENS SPACE INC
Steven T Ciampa 2013 Cfo $55,231 $0 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Anne Galloway 2017 Executive Dir. $55,222 $15,547 VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST
Michael Loner 2015 Executive Di $55,211 $0 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Lynne Fonteneau-Mccann 2014 Library Direct. $55,193 $10,166 BENNINGTON FREE LIBRARY
Brenda Scalabrini 2013 Ex Dir / Treas $55,173 $0 GRANITE CITY HOUSING INC
Td Bank Wealth Management 2015 Trustee $55,171 $0 GLENS FALLS FOUNDATION
Melissa Murray 2016 Executive Director $55,156 $0 OUTRIGHT VERMONT
Macy Lawrence 2016 Executive Director $55,154 $0 WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY TV
Kristin Blodgett 2016 Business Mgr $55,154 $0 THE CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY
Tammy Mosher 2014 Executive Dir. $55,137 $0 STRATTON MOUNTAIN & VALLEY COMMUNITY BENEFIT FOUNDATION
Kimberly Gouger 2017 Vp-Consumer Lending $55,115 $2,036 RIVER VALLEY CREDIT UNION
Emily Shipman 2017 Executive Director $55,101 $0 KIDSGARDENINGORG INC
Donna Bailey 2017 Co-Exec. Dir $55,075 $0 PARENT - CHILD CENTER INC
Maureen Cregan Connolly 2015 Exec. Officer $55,075 $0 HOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN VERMONT
Pieter Bohen 2017 Facilitator $55,070 $0 CHANGE THE WORLD KIDS 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.