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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
David Piers 2016 Ex. Director $49,015 $0 COVERED BRIDGE THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES INC
Nancy Elder 2014 Exec Directo $49,007 $0 CHARLOTTE DAY CARE CENTER INC
Xanthe Larsen 2016 Secretary/General Counsel $49,000 $0 ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION RISK INSTITUTE INC
Michael Keim 2013 Employee Trustee $49,000 $15,853 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Scott John Ward 2015 Vice President $48,972 $0 NETWORKS INC
Andrea Stander 2015 Executive Director $48,943 $0 RURAL EDUCATION ACTION PROJECT
Robert Joly 2015 Executive Director $48,932 $0 ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC
Regan Shaw 2014 Chief Financial Officer $48,914 $2,446 VETERANS EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOC OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC
Karen Boyce 2016 Progadmin Mgr $48,869 $17,133 VETERANS PLACE INC
Mary Russ 2016 Executive Director $48,868 $0 WHITE RIVER PARTNERSHIP INC
Stacy Silloway 2017 Executive Director $48,837 $0 FRANKLIN HOMESTEAD INC
Ann Fitzgerald 2013 Co-Director $48,816 $0 SOUTHSHIRE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC
James C Flint 2015 Executive Direc $48,782 $8,718 WONDER & WISDOM INC
Tom Bivins 2015 Executive Director $48,775 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
John Kueffner 2016 President $48,766 $0 WATERBURY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Stephen P Walker 2013 Cafe Manager $48,704 $0 RUTLAND COUNTRY CLUB INC
Pamela Scott 2015 Cfo $48,699 $0 CALEDONIA-ESSEX AREA AMBULANCE
Kim Roberge 2013 Exec. Direct $48,695 $0 CRAFTSBURY COMMUNITY CARE CENTER
Daniel Summers Ii 2015 Director Of Admin. $48,692 $2,159 SOUTHERN VERMONT COLLEGE
Rebecca Elder 2015 Secretary $48,680 $18,037 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Hung Bui 2014 Vp And Dean Of Admissions And Financial Aid $48,626 $16,206 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Anne E Young 2016 Program Coordinator $48,613 $6,657 FOXCROFT FARM HARVEST PROGRAM INC
Deb Wolf 2015 Executive Direc $48,612 $8,948 WASHINGTON CENTRAL FRIENDS OF EDUCATION INC
Lisa Purcell 2013 Director $48,557 $918 FOUR WINDS NATURE INSTITUTEINCORPORATED
June Onorato 2014 Assistant Director Of Finance $48,533 $0 BATTENKILL VALLEY HEALTH CENTER 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.