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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theresa Snow | 2017 | Executibe Director | $48,518 | $9,040 | SALVATION FARMS INC |
| Joanne Buermann | 2013 | Director/Head Teacher | $48,504 | $0 | SHELBURNE NURSERY SCHOOL |
| William Brim | 2016 | Executive Director | $48,491 | $0 | TURNING POINT CENTER OF ADDISONCOUNTY INC |
| Regina Rice Barker | 2015 | Executive Director | $48,455 | $0 | VALLEY COURT DIVERSION PROGRAM INC |
| Marion Posner | 2016 | Shelter Director | $48,444 | $0 | FRANKLIN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC |
| John Braun | 2015 | Cfo | $48,436 | $0 | VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC |
| John Braun | 2016 | Cfo | $48,436 | $0 | VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC |
| Karen Topper | 2015 | Administrative Director | $48,390 | $0 | GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF-ADVOCATES INC |
| Meghan E Meszkat | 2016 | Former Exec Dir | $48,389 | $0 | THE LITTLE SCHOOL INC |
| Anne Young | 2015 | Program Coordinator | $48,375 | $6,258 | FOXCROFT FARM HARVEST PROGRAM INC |
| Erica Shott | 2017 | Executive Director | $48,370 | $0 | DORSET VILLAGE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC |
| Tiffany Bluemle | 2015 | Former Ex Dir | $48,354 | $967 | VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC |
| Serenity Smith Forchion | 2013 | Executive Dir. | $48,339 | $0 | NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTSINC |
| Beth Baldwin | 2014 | Executive Director | $48,325 | $0 | BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BRATTLEBORO INC |
| Serenity Smith Forchion | 2017 | Founder & Artistic Director | $48,320 | $0 | NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTSINC |
| Hapy Mayer | 2016 | Finance Dire | $48,319 | $6,391 | VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC |
| Susan Klein | 2013 | Executive Director | $48,300 | $0 | MAD RIVER VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC |
| Jody Woos | 2016 | Executive Director | $48,269 | $0 | LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL |
| Kathy Thurston | 2017 | Business Mgr | $48,251 | $1,448 | OM FISHER HOME INC |
| Richard Courcelle | 2015 | Pres/Ceo | $48,219 | $25,000 | RUTLAND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE INC |
| Joy Kitchell | 2015 | Executive Dir. | $48,209 | $5,910 | BENNINGTON COUNTY ASSOCIATION AGAINST CHILD ABUSE |
| Dawn Hiscock-Fecteau | 2016 | Head Teacher | $48,204 | $0 | PRESCHOOL AT FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC |
| Jaqueline Hanlon | 2017 | Executive Dir. | $48,201 | $0 | WINDSOR COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES |
| Katherine Sims | 2015 | Executive Dir. | $48,199 | $0 | VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC |
| Chris Wood | 2016 | Executive Director | $48,180 | $15,676 | BUILDING A LOCAL ECONOMY |
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.