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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Elizabeth Wallace 2015 Executive Dir. $51,923 $4,000 EVERYBODY WINS VERMONT INC
Zeke Davisson 2015 Executive Director $51,923 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
Coleen Healy 2013 Co-Director $51,918 $0 SOUTHSHIRE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC
Anne Galloway 2016 Executive Dir. $51,916 $5,500 VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST
Cythia Tabor 2015 Asst. Executive Director $51,844 $0 VERMONT FEDERATION OF FAMILIES FOR CHILDRENS MENTAL HEALTH
Yumiko Jakobcic 2013 Exec Directo $51,836 $7,998 WINOOSKI VALLEY PARK DISTRICT
Karen Peterson 2017 Executive Director $51,834 $7,659 AIDS PROJECT OF SOUTHERN VERMONT INC
Darcie Mccann 2013 Executive Director $51,824 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Tom Garrett Until 81516 2016 Executive Di $51,792 $1,841 LEGAL SERVICES LAW LINE OF VERMONT INC
Patrick Sheehan 2013 Exec. Direct $51,767 $1,480 CHITTENDON COUNTY COURT DIVERSION INC
Russell Hirschler 2014 Executive Direc $51,763 $0 UPPER VALLEY TRAILS ALLIANCE INC
Christopher Oldham 2016 Executive Director $51,731 $0 BENNINGTON COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
Eric Seyferth 2014 Director/Uha Chair $51,730 $1,897 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Dawn Archbold 2015 Executive Director $51,714 $0 UNITED WAY OF LAMOILLE COUNTY INC
Elizabeth Claud 2013 Executive Director $51,655 $0 HIGH HORSES THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM
Patrick Skehan 2016 Executive Director $51,602 $0 HARTFORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Matt Gordon 2016 Executive Director $51,544 $0 VERMONT MAPLE SUGAR MAKERS ASSOCIATION INC
Heidi Sulis 2015 Executive Director $51,520 $0 COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES OF ADDISON COUNTY
Tara Kavanagh 2013 Trustee $51,519 $0 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Jessica Hyman 2016 Executive Director $51,517 $4,470 VERMONT COMMUNITY GARDEN NETWORK INC
Charles Lee 2014 Executive Direc $51,500 $0 EMERGENCY RESPONDERS SUPPORTSERVICES
Cheryl Thrall 2015 Co-Executive Director $51,500 $13,901 AREA RESOURCE FOR INDIVIDUALIZED SERVICES INC
William Ashe 2015 Co-Executive Director $51,500 $15,664 AREA RESOURCE FOR INDIVIDUALIZED SERVICES INC
Tom Bivins 2017 Executive Director $51,436 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Td Bank Wealth Management 2016 Trustee $51,435 $0 GLENS FALLS FOUNDATION

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.