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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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 Savidge 2014 Ex. Director $42,065 $0 ORANGE COUNTY DIVERSION PROGRAM
David Savidge 2015 Ex. Director $42,030 $0 ORANGE COUNTY DIVERSION PROGRAM
Pamela Pearson 2017 President $42,015 $0 INTERNATIONAL CRYOSPHERE CLIMATE INITIATIVE
Kathryn Laframboise 2017 Former Director $42,000 $0 CAMP THORPE INC
Carol Barbierri 2014 Executive Director $42,000 $0 ARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE INC
Shannon O'Brien 2016 Director $42,000 $0 NORTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE INCORPORATED
Sage Tucker-Ketcham 2014 Executive Director $42,000 $0 SHELBURNE ART CENTER CORPORATION
Linda Weyerts 2015 Ex Officio $42,000 $0 ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Barbara Morrow 2015 Executive Di $41,995 $0 NEWPORT COMMUNITY JUSTICE CENTER INC
Stephanie Austin 2016 Finance Director $41,980 $14,259 ORLEANS-ESSEX VNA & HOSPICE INC
Michelle Laflam 2014 Executive Director $41,967 $0 GREENSBORO COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER
Elizabeth Malone 2014 Executive Di $41,957 $0 NORTHWEST P E G TV INCORPORATED
Maria Basescu 2017 Executive Director $41,950 $0 NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INCORPORATED
Kaitlyn Desautels 2016 Secretary $41,948 $2,750 THE BELLWETHER SCHOOL AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC
Gregory Nelson 2013 Golf Pro $41,940 $0 RUTLAND COUNTRY CLUB INC
Paula J Kobylarz-Wehde 2016 Program Director $41,917 $0 WINDSOR AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Carol Miklos 2015 Executive Director $41,906 $0 AIA VERMONT
Patrick Cody 2015 Executive Director $41,890 $2,513 OKEMO VALLEY TV CORP
Tina Grant 2017 Director $41,884 $0 PB AND J INC
Kathryn Cookson 2015 Program Dire $41,858 $0 MORRISTOWN AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM
Dail Frates 2014 Executive Director $41,817 $0 ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
Stephen Spencer 2013 E.D. Through $41,809 $2,735 LOCAL MOTION INC
Alexandra Halkin 2017 Executive Dir. $41,800 $0 AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP
Tammy Duclos 2015 Assistant Director $41,800 $0 RUTLAND CITY RESCUE MISSION INC
Cathy Pelton 2015 Director Of Finance $41,792 $11,756 GREENWOOD 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.