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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Sally Borden 2013 Executive Director $52,564 $17,812 KIDSAFE COLLABORATIVE INC
Douglas Bouchard 2014 Executive Di $52,548 $2,312 NORTHEAST KINGDOM HUMAN SERVICES INC
Rebecca Brooks 2015 Vice President $52,529 $0 NETWORKS INC
Laurie Adams 2017 Executive Director $52,520 $0 WINDSOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CENTER
Melissa Murray 2015 Executive Director $52,517 $0 OUTRIGHT VERMONT
Jackie Palmer 2017 Executive Director $52,469 $0 ROBINS NEST CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Michael Loner 2014 Executive Di $52,466 $3,462 THE DREAM PROGRAM INC
Sage Tucker-Ketcham 2016 Executive Director $52,400 $0 SHELBURNE ART CENTER CORPORATION
Rob Schultz 2013 Executive Direc $52,391 $0 COVER HOME REPAIR INC
Jared R Gunnell 2015 Executive Dir. $52,324 $5,402 SPRINGFIELD AREA PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION
Robert Chapman 2015 Executive Director $52,312 $18,928 ONION RIVER COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA INC
Julia O'Donnell 2017 Director - Adult Day Servi $52,300 $0 OXBOW SENIOR INDEPENDENCE PROGRAM INC
Timothy Labombard 2016 Executive Board/Member Dev $52,266 $24,613 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Sarah Adams-Kollitz 2013 Executive Direc $52,265 $0 BURLINGTON CHILDRENS SPACE INC
Judith Frazier 2015 Secretary $52,250 $9,671 COLLEGE OF ST JOSEPH
Chris Hultquist 2016 Executive Dir. $52,215 $0 THE MENTOR CONNECTOR
Ann Fitzgerald 2015 Board Member $52,214 $0 SOUTHSHIRE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC
William Ashe 2016 Co-Executive Director $52,211 $17,755 AREA RESOURCE FOR INDIVIDUALIZED SERVICES INC
Cheryl Thrall 2016 Co-Executive Director $52,211 $14,986 AREA RESOURCE FOR INDIVIDUALIZED SERVICES INC
Bruce Duncan 2017 Managing Director $52,184 $0 TERASEM MOVEMENT FOUNDATION INC
David Brynn 2017 Director $52,166 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY FORESTS INC
Erin Fernandez 2014 Executive Director $52,139 $0 VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI & SPORTS
Pamela Pearson 2015 President $52,131 $0 INTERNATIONAL CRYOSPHERE CLIMATE INITIATIVE
Gregory Nelson 2017 Golf Pro $52,112 $5,544 RUTLAND COUNTRY CLUB INC
Nicole Jorgensen 2017 Executive Director $52,106 $0 HIGH HORSES THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM

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.