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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Deborah Snell 2017 Vice President $44,810 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Robert Green 2015 Board Member/Camp Director $44,809 $7,191 CAMP BILLINGS INC
Stefani Capizzi 2017 Executive Di $44,786 $5,553 NORTH CENTRAL VERMONT RECOVERY CENTER INC
Will Eberle 2014 Executive Director $44,746 $21,632 ANOTHER WAY INC
Michelle Laflam 2015 Executive Director $44,697 $0 GREENSBORO COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER
Paula Levin 2016 Trustee $44,680 $292 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Lesley Koenig 2014 Managing Director (Began May 2014) $44,667 $0 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Chip Darmstadt 2017 Executive Direc $44,629 $18,884 FRIENDS OF NORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC
Rob Anderegg 2014 Assoc. Director $44,624 $5,178 FOUR WINDS NATURE INSTITUTEINCORPORATED
Sarah Rougier 2016 Exec Directo $44,623 $0 BRISTOL FAMILY CENTER
Sarah Laird 2013 Co-Director $44,600 $0 PEOPLE & PLANTS INTERNAIONAL INC
Diana Ferguson 2014 Executive Director $44,600 $0 ESSEX CHIPS INC
Kenneth C Tindall 2013 $44,565 $0 RUTLAND COUNTRY CLUB INC
Mary Russ 2014 Executive Director $44,535 $0 WHITE RIVER PARTNERSHIP INC
Mary Marriott 2016 Trustee $44,530 $0 SPECIALIZED COMMUNITY CARE
Anne Bourdon 2014 Executive Director $44,521 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CARSHARE
Kate Nugent 2017 Executive Director $44,500 $668 WINOOSKI PARTNERSHIP FOR PREVENTION INC
Karen Crowe 2014 Executive Director - No Voting Rights $44,482 $0 VERMONT CONGREGATIONAL HOME INC
Eric Bagley 2017 Club Asst Dir $44,462 $0 CAPITAL SOCCER CLUB INC
Eric Bagley 2016 Club Asst Dir $44,462 $0 CAPITAL SOCCER CLUB INC
Karen Crowe 2013 Executive Director - No Voting Rights $44,423 $0 VERMONT CONGREGATIONAL HOME INC
Jody Woos 2015 Executive Director $44,423 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Dawn Hiscock-Fecteau 2015 Head Teacher $44,422 $0 PRESCHOOL AT FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC
Phyllis Arata-Meyers 2014 President $44,398 $0 CHANGE THE WORLD KIDS INC
Wanda Bezio 2013 Co-Executive $44,387 $4,929 STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 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.