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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
David St Pierre 2013 Secretary/Treasurer $43,631 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY RESCUE INC
Roger S Strauss Phd 2015 Board Sec/Treasurer/Exec.P $43,581 $0 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Lindsey Desrochers 2016 Director $43,579 $2,731 THE BELLWETHER SCHOOL AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC
John Murphy 2014 Rink Manager $43,481 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT MEMORIAL CIVIC CENTER INC
Mary Collins 2014 Trustee/Teacher $43,473 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN WALDORF SCHOOL
Patricia Moulton 2014 Former Executive Director $43,460 $0 THE BRATTLEBORO DEVELOPMENT CREDIT CORPORATION
Pamela Krausz 2013 President/Tr $43,438 $8,576 VERMONT COMPANION ANIMAL NEUTERING INC
Douglas Emery 2014 Manager $43,398 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Douglas Emery 2013 Manager $43,398 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Paul Burns 2013 Executive Director $43,395 $11,501 VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND
Karen White 2015 Trustee/Teacher $43,380 $37,360 LAKE CHAMPLAIN WALDORF SCHOOL
Sarah Lemnah 2015 Executive Dir. $43,333 $0 CANCER PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAM INC
Chip Darmstadt 2015 Executive Direc $43,326 $10,422 FRIENDS OF NORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC
Diana Ferguson 2013 Executive Director $43,317 $0 ESSEX CHIPS INC
Laurie Adams 2015 Executive Director $43,296 $0 WINDSOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CENTER
Margaret Gundersen 2017 President $43,269 $0 FAIREWINDS ENERGY EDUCATION CORP
Richard Davidson 2016 Executive Director $43,265 $0 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BRATTLEBORO INC
Mary Beth Pinard 2013 Executive Director $43,231 $0 VERMONT CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC
Martin Hahn 2016 E.D. Until J $43,227 $2,022 COMMUNITY CAPITAL OF VERMONT INC
Dave Cobb 2015 Devel. Director $43,219 $3,025 VERMONT PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION INC
Jay Austin 2014 Business Mgr $43,202 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Mary Ellen Otis 2013 Executive Dir. $43,169 $8,163 ORANGE COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER INC
Gayle Rapp 2015 Center Direc $43,157 $0 PUFFER CHILD CARE CENTER
Tanya Lachapelle 2013 Director $43,121 $0 ROBINS NEST CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Rob Anderegg 2015 Assoc. Director $43,091 $5,208 FOUR WINDS NATURE INSTITUTEINCORPORATED

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.