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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Brad Ferland 2017 President $48,000 $0 VERMONT ENERGY PARTNERSHIP INC
Tammy Mosher 2016 Executive Dir. $48,000 $0 STRATTON MOUNTAIN & VALLEY COMMUNITY BENEFIT FOUNDATION
Marcela Pino 2017 Co-Director $48,000 $0 FOOD 4 FARMERS
David Winters Mcmath 2014 President/Treasurer $48,000 $0 MOBILITY WITHOUT BARRIERS FOUNDATION
Karen Haupt 2014 Progadmin Mgr $47,985 $10,490 VETERANS PLACE INC
Bethaney M Laclair 2013 Executive Office Director & Assistant Corporate Secretary $47,978 $17,126 WORLD LEARNING INC
Karen Haupt 2013 Prog/Admin Mgr $47,936 $0 VETERANS PLACE INC
Patrick Skehan 2017 Executive Director $47,908 $0 HARTFORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Michael Reiderer 2014 Executive Director $47,874 $0 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER VERGENNES INC
James C Flint 2014 Executive Direc $47,868 $8,236 WONDER & WISDOM INC
Jason Frishman 2013 Vice President $47,863 $0 NETWORKS INC
Cristina Alicea 2016 Producing Artistic Director $47,860 $0 VERMONT STAGE COMPANY INC
Vikki Patterson 2013 Executive Di $47,791 $278 MILTON FAMILY COMMUNITY CENTER INC
Susan Jones 2015 Finacial Business Manager $47,780 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INCORPORATED
Stefani Capizzi 2016 Executive Di $47,760 $5,077 NORTH CENTRAL VERMONT RECOVERY CENTER INC
Scott Buckingham 2017 Executive Director $47,731 $0 FRIENDS OF DOG MOUNTAIN INC
Pamela Krausz 2017 President $47,725 $0 VERMONT COMPANION ANIMAL NEUTERING INC
Michelle B Fay 2013 Ex. Dir. $47,693 $0 UMBRELLA OF ST JOHNSBURY INC
Debbie Millon 2015 Director $47,672 $12,351 THE BELLWETHER SCHOOL AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC
Sylvia Dow 2017 Executive Dir. $47,670 $0 VISIONS FOR CREATIVE HOUSING SOLUTIONS
James Tewksbury 2015 Founding Board Member-At-L $47,669 $1,430 GLOBAL CAMPUSES FOUNDATION
Mary Russ 2015 Executive Director $47,668 $0 WHITE RIVER PARTNERSHIP INC
Will Eberle 2015 Executive Director (Thru 5/16) $47,662 $20,482 ANOTHER WAY INC
Elizabeth C Malone 2016 Executive Director $47,652 $0 NORTHWEST P E G TV INCORPORATED
John Shannahan 2014 Executive Dir. $47,610 $0 BETTER BENNINGTON CORPORATION

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.