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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Matthew Gordon 2014 Executive Director $45,001 $0 VERMONT MAPLE SUGAR MAKERS ASSOCIATION INC
Vincent Montoro 2017 Head Of School $45,000 $0 UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
Sabra L Davison 2017 Director, President And Treasurer $45,000 $0 BELLAS MENTORING INC
Michael Chiarella 2014 Dir. Of Operations $45,000 $0 RICHMOND RESCUE INCORPORATED
Margaret Gundersen 2016 President $45,000 $0 FAIREWINDS ENERGY EDUCATION CORP
Aaron Rakow 2015 President $45,000 $0 STEPS PROGRAM INC
Richard Malley 2013 Executive Dir. $45,000 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Molly Lambert Until 52617 2017 Executive Di $45,000 $0 UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC
Stephen Stearns 2017 Founder (Emeritus) $45,000 $0 NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER INC
Mary Grace 2017 Executive Dir. $45,000 $0 PARTNERSHIPS FOR LITERACY AND LEARNING
Orly Yadin 2014 Executive Dir. $45,000 $0 VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FOUNDATION
Orly Yadin 2015 Executive Dir. $45,000 $0 VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FOUNDATION
Michael Wiese 2016 Executive Director $45,000 $0 SPRINGFIELD FAMILY CENTER INC
Michael Crowley 2017 Executive Dir. $45,000 $0 YESTERMORROW INC
Heather Mcclure 2016 Chief Operating Officer $45,000 $38,507 ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS INSURANCECOMPANY
Orly Yadin 2016 Executive Dir. $45,000 $0 VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FOUNDATION
Anne Young 2014 Program Coordinator $44,961 $6,447 FOXCROFT FARM HARVEST PROGRAM INC
Donna Rutherford 2017 Board Treasurer $44,913 $0 NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL
John Broderick 2015 Executive Director $44,913 $0 SHIRES HOUSING INC
Brooke Salls 2014 Development Director $44,880 $0 GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN
Patrick Skehan 2014 Executive Director $44,879 $0 HARTFORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Beth Baldwin 2013 Executive Director $44,878 $0 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BRATTLEBORO INC
Patrick Skehan 2015 Executive Director $44,863 $0 HARTFORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
David Ganapol 2015 Vice President $44,858 $0 NETWORKS INC
Lana Bodach-Turner 2014 Executive Di $44,828 $8,633 MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CENTRAL VERMONT 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.