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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Erica Shott 2015 Executive Director $45,813 $0 DORSET VILLAGE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC
Joanna Vonculin 2017 Center Direc $45,796 $0 PUFFER CHILD CARE CENTER
Margaret Wood Hemnes-See Sch O 2014 Executive Dir. $45,761 $0 MANCHESTER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Anthony Moulton 2014 Executive Director New 2014 $45,760 $0 MILTON COMMUNITY YOUTH COALITION INC
Judith Chick 2013 Part-Year Administrator $45,753 $27,368 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Paul Rocheleau 2016 Director $45,737 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY RESCUE INC
Nina Curtiss 2014 Executive Director $45,707 $6,336 FRANKLIN COUNTY COURT DIVERSION INC
Evan Chismark 2017 Executive Dir. $45,696 $0 VERMONT MOUNTAIN BIKE ADVOCATE INC
Eric Bagley 2015 Club Asst Dir $45,684 $0 CAPITAL SOCCER CLUB INC
Kathleen Haughey 2016 Executive Director $45,675 $8,289 VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER
William Roberts 2013 Executive Director $45,666 $0 OUR HOUSE OF CENTRAL VT INC
Erin Fernandez 2013 Executive Director $45,657 $0 VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI & SPORTS
John Tashiro Former 2015 Former Ed $45,651 $11,029 1 FOR THE PLANET INC
Michelle Laflam 2017 Executive Di $45,640 $0 GREENSBORO COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER
Brooke Salls 2015 Development Director $45,617 $0 GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN
James Tewksbury 2014 Founding Board Member-At-L $45,609 $2,204 GLOBAL CAMPUSES FOUNDATION
Jay Austin 2016 Business Mgr $45,582 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Debbie Millon 2014 Director $45,504 $11,603 THE BELLWETHER SCHOOL AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC
Molly Dugan-Sullivan 2017 Bradford Center Director $45,500 $0 WATCH THEM GROW CHILDCARE CENTER
Susan Walker 2016 Ex. Director $45,500 $0 TURNING POINT OF WINDHAM COUNTY INC
Christine Scherding 2017 Administrative Director $45,485 $2,700 UPPER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Donna Rutherford 2016 Board Treasurer $45,479 $0 NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL
Wendy Loomis 2014 Executive Director $45,448 $0 CHILD FIRST ADVOCACY CENTER
Donna Rutherford 2015 Board Treasurer $45,443 $0 NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL
Cristina Maddocks 2016 Former Exec $45,439 $0 NORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL 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.