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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Stephen P Walker 2015 Cafe Manager $52,104 $0 RUTLAND COUNTRY CLUB INC
Stephen P Walker 2016 Cafe Manager $52,104 $0 RUTLAND COUNTRY CLUB INC
Lisa Northrup 2014 Co-Director $52,081 $0 MIDDLEBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC
Lauren Merritt 2013 Executive Dir. $52,061 $2,074 STEPS PROGRAM INC
Stephen P Walker 2014 Cafe Manager $52,045 $0 RUTLAND COUNTRY CLUB INC
Rick Bjorn 2016 Executive Director $52,000 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY COURT DIVERSION AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER INC
Bob Green 2013 Board Member/Camp Director $52,000 $0 CAMP BILLINGS INC
Richard Bjorn 2013 Executive Di $52,000 $10,431 RUTLAND COUNTY COURT DIVERSION AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER INC
Brendan Cosgrove 2014 Executive Director $52,000 $0 AMERICAN COUNCIL OF ENGINEERING COMPANIES OF VERMONT INC
Sarah Laird 2014 Co-Director $52,000 $0 PEOPLE & PLANTS INTERNAIONAL INC
Richard Bjorn 2014 Executive Di $52,000 $8,802 RUTLAND COUNTY COURT DIVERSION AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER INC
Karen Lane 2014 Former Exec Dir $52,000 $0 ALDRICH PUBLIC LIBRARY
Andrea Cohen 2014 Executive Dir. $52,000 $1,560 VERMONT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Denise Smith 2014 Executive Di $52,000 $0 FRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
Yacouba Jacob Bogre 2014 Executive Director $52,000 $6,993 ASSOCIATION OF AFRICANS LIVING IN VERMONT
Yacouba Jacob Bogre 2016 Executive Director $52,000 $7,878 ASSOCIATION OF AFRICANS LIVING IN VERMONT
Richard Davidson 2017 Executive Director $52,000 $0 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BRATTLEBORO INC
Chris Hultquist 2015 Executive Direc $52,000 $0 THE MENTOR CONNECTOR
Julia O'Donnell 2016 Director - Adult Day Servi $52,000 $0 OXBOW SENIOR INDEPENDENCE PROGRAM INC
Rob Chapman 2014 Executive Director $52,000 $20,124 ONION RIVER COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA INC
Richard Bjorn 2015 Executive Di $52,000 $9,440 RUTLAND COUNTY COURT DIVERSION AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER INC
Rick Bjorn 2017 Executive Director $52,000 $0 RUTLAND COUNTY COURT DIVERSION AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER INC
Mandy Mcdermott 2013 Business Manager $51,951 $17,961 PATHWAYS VERMONT INC
Gregory Sharrow 2014 Co-Director $51,923 $13,006 VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER
Dave Southwick 2014 Executive Di $51,923 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 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.