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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Joel Carey 2016 Assistant Director $50,621 $0 WOODSTOCK RECREATION CENTER INC
Karen Peterson 2016 Executive Director $50,619 $6,985 AIDS PROJECT OF SOUTHERN VERMONT INC
Judith Chalmer 2013 Executive Direc $50,600 $0 VSA VERMONT INC
Deb Wolf 2016 Executive Direc $50,569 $0 WASHINGTON CENTRAL FRIENDS OF EDUCATION INC
Michelle Chamberlain 2013 Executive Director $50,535 $0 ADDISON COUNTY COURT DIVERSION & COMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECTS INC
Thomas Leypoldt 2017 Executive Dir. $50,514 $0 RUTLAND REGION COMMUNITY TELEVISION
Macy Lawrence 2014 Executive Director $50,512 $0 WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY TV
Robert Joly 2014 Executive Director $50,500 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Scott L Borg 2014 President/Ceo/Chief Econom $50,500 $0 UNITED STATES CYBER CONSEQUENCESUNIT
Regina Rice Barker 2013 Executive Director $50,500 $0 VALLEY COURT DIVERSION PROGRAM INC
Richard Chapin 2013 Ceo $50,500 $0 MEMBERS 1ST CREDIT UNION
Michelle Modiba 2015 Executive Director $50,439 $0 ADDISON COUNTY COURT DIVERSION & COMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECTS INC
Linda Campbell 2013 Executive Direc $50,438 $0 PROJECT AGAINST VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS
Jennifer Canfield 2017 Executive Dir. $50,415 $4,851 MAGIC HOUSE INC
Lucinda Walker 2013 Director $50,415 $6,926 NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Pamela Scott 2016 Cfo $50,408 $0 CALEDONIA-ESSEX AREA AMBULANCE
Dawn Hiscock 2017 Dir/Head Teache $50,396 $0 PRESCHOOL AT FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC
Matt Harrington 2016 Executive Director $50,385 $0 BENNINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Shirley Ryan 2016 Office Manager $50,343 $0 HOSPICE VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC
Zach Stone 2017 Rink Manager $50,308 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT MEMORIAL CIVIC CENTER INC
Phyllis Arata-Meyers 2016 President $50,306 $0 CHANGE THE WORLD KIDS INC
Gary De Carolis 2014 Executive Di $50,300 $0 TURNING POINT CENTER OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY INC
Juli Reideer 2015 Executive Director $50,289 $0 ROCHESTER COMMUNITY CARE HOME INC
Dawn Archbold 2013 Executive Director $50,265 $0 UNITED WAY OF LAMOILLE COUNTY INC
William White 2017 Vp Finance & $50,257 $2,592 STERLING COLLEGE

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.