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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Richard K Pounds 2017 Executive Director $43,070 $0 ANEW PLACE INC
Linda Weyerts 2016 Ex Officio $43,055 $0 ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Judy Hayward 2016 Exec.Director $43,020 $0 HISTORIC WINDSOR INC
Paul Rocheleau 2015 President $43,006 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY RESCUE INC
Thaddeus Cooke 2016 Treasurer $43,002 $0 NEW MORAN INC
Nancy C Wick 2017 Executive Direc $43,000 $0 VERMONT TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
Paul Rocheleau 2013 President $42,995 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY RESCUE INC
Jo-Anne Unruh 2014 Executive Di $42,988 $1,000 VERMONT COUNCIL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION ADMINISTRATORS INC
Michelle Connor 2017 Secretary $42,958 $29,974 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Stefani Capizzi 2015 Executive Di $42,955 $0 NORTH CENTRAL VERMONT RECOVERY CENTER INC
Jay Austin 2013 Business Mgr $42,940 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Lori Darrah 2017 Exec-Dir/Pres $42,900 $0 FAIR HAVEN VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC
Kristy Haapala 2016 Executive Director $42,885 $0 CHILDRENS DAY CARE CENTER INC
Matt Gordon 2015 Executive Director $42,839 $0 VERMONT MAPLE SUGAR MAKERS ASSOCIATION INC
Eric Bunge 2013 Managing Director $42,836 $0 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
Daniel Quinlan 2017 Business Dir $42,800 $15,127 LUMUNOS INC
Julia Pellegrino 70115-112115 2015 Faculty Representative $42,786 $16,000 UPPER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Dr Rebekah Thomas 2014 Faculty Trustee $42,770 $10,161 COLLEGE OF ST JOSEPH
Elaine Anderson 2016 Secretary $42,719 $0 AURORA SCHOOL
Kip Dalury 2016 Business Manager $42,711 $0 VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI & SPORTS
Carol Putnam 2013 Exec Director $42,708 $7,123 GRASS ROOTS ART AND COMMUNITY EFFORTS
Anthony Korda 2015 Operations Coordinator $42,707 $0 VERGENNES AREA RESCUE SQUAD
Trevor Squirrell 2016 Executive Director $42,700 $0 BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INC
Cristina Alicea 2013 Producing Artistic Director $42,670 $5,713 VERMONT STAGE COMPANY INC
Russell Hirschler 2015 Executive Direc $42,653 $10,663 UPPER VALLEY TRAILS ALLIANCE 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.