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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Susan Ryan 2013 Director Of $49,996 $7,166 VERMONT CHILD CARE INDUSTRY AND CAREER COUNCIL INC
Elizabeth Karle 2017 Finance Dir $49,992 $23,617 SPRING LAKE RANCH INC
Wendy Beinner - Left Agency In Fy 2 2014 President/Ceo $49,971 $0 NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF VERMONT INC
James Tewksbury 2016 Founding Board Member-At-L $49,954 $1,499 GLOBAL CAMPUSES FOUNDATION
Kerri Duquette-Hoffman 2015 Executive Di $49,926 $1,535 WOMENSAFE INC
Laurie Adams 2016 Executive Director $49,892 $0 WINDSOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CENTER
Carol Miklos 2017 Executive Director $49,887 $0 AIA VERMONT
Jaqueline Hanlon 2016 Executive Dir. $49,880 $0 WINDSOR COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES
Paul Kervick 2017 President $49,867 $0 AWAKENING SANCTUARY INC
Mark M Reardon 2017 Cafe Manager $49,831 $5,544 RUTLAND COUNTRY CLUB INC
Paul Burns 2014 Executive Director $49,815 $8,624 VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND
Priscilla West Mph 2013 Executive Director $49,807 $2,490 VETERANS EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOC OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC
Nancy Heydinger 2014 Executive Dir. $49,770 $11,230 GIRLS ON THE RUN OF VERMONT INC
Kristen Martin 2015 Executive Di $49,769 $0 MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CENTRAL VERMONT INC
Lisa Purcell 2014 Executive Dir. $49,743 $941 FOUR WINDS NATURE INSTITUTEINCORPORATED
Gloria Van Den Berg 2013 Executive Dir. $49,620 $0 ALYSSUM INC
Meghan Meszkat 2015 Executive Dir. $49,558 $623 THE LITTLE SCHOOL INC
Bob Coates 2015 Coo $49,543 $4,500 VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC
Megan Godfrey 2016 Executive Dir. $49,530 $9,064 TRINITY CHILDRENS CENTER INC
James Lockridge 2016 Executive Di $49,523 $0 YOUTH SAFETY COUNCIL OF VERMONT INC
Elsie Smith 2017 Founder & Artistic Director $49,516 $0 NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTSINC
Rev Tm Moore 2014 Chairman $49,500 $0 FELLOWSHIP OF AILBE
Claire Kendall 2014 Co Exec Dire $49,488 $381 WASHINGTON COUNTY FAMILY CENTER
Cara Robechek 2014 Executive Director $49,478 $0 VERMONT ENERGY EDUCATION PROGRAM INCORPORATED
Anne Bourdon 2015 Executive Director $49,477 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CARSHARE

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.