Vermont Nonprofit Navigator
Explore the organizations and people that power Vermont's $6.8 billion nonprofit economy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Frado | 2013 | Presidentexecutive Director | $50,240 | $15,581 | CROSS COUNTRY SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION |
| Gini Milkey | 2015 | Executive Di | $50,230 | $4,898 | COMMUNITY OF VERMONT ELDERS |
| Ann Fitzgerald | 2014 | Co-Director | $50,224 | $0 | SOUTHSHIRE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC |
| Wendy Loomis | 2015 | Executive Dir. | $50,224 | $5,694 | CHILD FIRST ADVOCACY CENTER |
| Jared R Gunnell | 2016 | Executive Dir. | $50,203 | $11,221 | SPRINGFIELD AREA PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION |
| William Driscoll | 2013 | Vice President | $50,200 | $10,346 | ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES OF VERMONT |
| Karen Lane | 2013 | Exec Director | $50,190 | $0 | ALDRICH PUBLIC LIBRARY |
| Marcia Milton | 2014 | Vice President | $50,181 | $0 | NETWORKS INC |
| Gini Milkey | 2016 | Executive Di | $50,180 | $5,006 | COMMUNITY OF VERMONT ELDERS |
| Nanci Gordon | 2015 | Executive Dir. | $50,165 | $0 | UNITED WAY OF RUTLAND COUNTY VERMONT INC |
| Larken Bunce | 2017 | Co-Director | $50,153 | $0 | VERMONT CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVEHERBALISM |
| Helen Riehle | 2013 | Executive Director | $50,145 | $0 | CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INCORPORATED |
| Robert Joly | 2016 | Executive Director | $50,137 | $8,160 | ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC |
| Kimberley Gouger | 2016 | Vp-Consumer Lending | $50,103 | $1,895 | RIVER VALLEY CREDIT UNION |
| Nancy Heydinger | 2016 | Executive Dir. | $50,100 | $9,900 | GIRLS ON THE RUN OF VERMONT INC |
| Pat Dougherty | 2015 | Vice President | $50,083 | $0 | NETWORKS INC |
| Caitlyn Herr | 2015 | Rescue Chief | $50,081 | $7,490 | CHARLOTTE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES INC |
| Mary Russ | 2017 | Executive Director | $50,080 | $0 | WHITE RIVER PARTNERSHIP INC |
| Susan Pare | 2015 | Director | $50,080 | $5,192 | STARKSBORO COOPERATIVE PRESCHOOL INC |
| Karen Peterson | 2015 | Executive Director | $50,074 | $6,960 | AIDS PROJECT OF SOUTHERN VERMONT INC |
| Tiffany Bluemle | 2014 | Former Ex. Dir | $50,055 | $21,057 | VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC |
| Elise Tillinghast | 2013 | Executive Director | $50,054 | $4,675 | CENTER FOR WOODLANDS EDUCATION INC |
| Jim Morin | 2013 | Trustee | $50,043 | $0 | TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC |
| Sylvia Dow | 2016 | Executive Dir. | $50,040 | $0 | VISIONS FOR CREATIVE HOUSING SOLUTIONS |
| Yacouba Jacob Bogre | 2013 | Executive Direc | $50,038 | $8,124 | ASSOCIATION OF AFRICANS LIVING IN VERMONT |
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.
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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.