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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Sallie Scott 2015 Executive Di $46,350 $5,234 NORTH COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE INC
Karen Reynolds 2016 Business Mgr $46,273 $11,946 COLLEGE OF ST JOSEPH
Susan Sommer 2016 Executive Director $46,250 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Joseph Hurley 2017 Executive Di $46,200 $0 DISABLED SPORTS USA
Joseph Hurley 2016 Executive Di $46,200 $0 DISABLED SPORTS USA
Joseph Hurley 2015 Executive Di $46,200 $0 DISABLED SPORTS USA
Martha Mclafferty 2017 Executive Director $46,180 $0 HARTFORD COMMUNITY RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER
Sean Mccann 2016 Lieutenant $46,180 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Tom Bivins 2014 Executive Director $46,154 $0 VERMONT CHEESE COUNCIL
Nathan Suter 2016 Exec, Direct $46,134 $0 HELEN DAY ART CENTER INC
Linda Larocque 2017 Administrator $46,100 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC
Michael Reiderer 2013 Executive Director $46,091 $0 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER VERGENNES INC
Steve Peters 2017 Executive Director $46,071 $0 DOWNTOWN RUTLAND PARTNERSHIP INC
Linda January 2016 Executive Director $46,020 $0 OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC
Kristin Meeks 2017 Center Director $46,000 $0 WATCH THEM GROW CHILDCARE CENTER
Angella Gibbons 2015 Executive Di $46,000 $0 EARTHWALK VERMONT
Shyla Clark 2013 Staff Liaison $45,989 $0 MIDDLEBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC
Robert Chapman 2016 Executive Director $45,985 $23,718 ONION RIVER COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA INC
Dean Economou 2015 President $45,973 $0 LAKE MANSFIELD TROUT CLUB
Chris Wood 2017 Executive Director $45,946 $8,233 BUILDING A LOCAL ECONOMY
Andrea Warnke 2017 Assc Director $45,942 $0 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
Michelle Modiba 2016 Executive Director $45,923 $10,138 ADDISON COUNTY COURT DIVERSION & COMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECTS INC
Paul Rocheleau 2014 President $45,888 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY RESCUE INC
Michelle Modiba 2017 Executive Director $45,851 $0 ADDISON COUNTY COURT DIVERSION & COMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECTS INC
Linda Dyer 2013 Ceo $45,833 $0 DRAGONHEART VERMONT INCORPORATED

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.