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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Cristina Maddocks 2014 Executive Dir. $41,781 $0 NORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL INC
Edward Wright 2017 Vice President $41,749 $19,208 NORTHEASTERN BAPTIST COLLEGE INC
Lori Darrah 2016 Exec-Dir/Pres $41,737 $7,728 FAIR HAVEN VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC
Erin Talmage 2015 Museum Dir $41,734 $0 BIRDS OF VERMONT MUSEUM INC
David Savidge 2013 Ex. Director $41,734 $0 ORANGE COUNTY DIVERSION PROGRAM
Heidi Sulis 2016 Executive Director $41,728 $0 COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES OF ADDISON COUNTY
June Albright 2017 Faculty Representative $41,709 $17,865 UPPER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Julia Pellegrino 2014 Faculty Representative $41,679 $14,637 UPPER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Douglas Emery 2015 Manager $41,600 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Douglas Emery 2016 Manager $41,600 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Anne Bourdon 2013 Executive Director $41,583 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CARSHARE
Jo-Anne Unruh 2015 Executive Di $41,562 $0 VERMONT COUNCIL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION ADMINISTRATORS INC
Donna Fringuello-Girot 2017 Exec. Director $41,557 $0 CATV INC
Kristin Blodgett 2017 Business Mgr $41,552 $0 THE CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY
Erick Crockenberg 2016 Vice President $41,544 $0 NEW MORAN INC
Erin Talmage 2017 Museum Dir $41,540 $0 BIRDS OF VERMONT MUSEUM INC
Mark Naud Until 6217 2017 Executive Di $41,538 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC
Elizabeth Bancroft 2017 Co-Director $41,505 $0 VERMONT CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVEHERBALISM
Lisa Sausville 2016 Executive Di $41,500 $0 VERMONT COVERTS
Kathy Clark 2015 Ex Officio $41,500 $0 ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Kate Nugent 2015 Executive Director $41,500 $0 WINOOSKI PARTNERSHIP FOR PREVENTION INC
Lori Darrah 2015 Exec-Dir/Pres $41,499 $6,827 FAIR HAVEN VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC
Lauren-Glenn Davitian 2015 Executive Director $41,455 $18,254 CHITTENDEN COMMUNITY TELEVISION
Rik Poduschnick 2016 Cfo $41,454 $0 PARENT - CHILD CENTER INC
Mike Frisbie 2017 Executive Dir. $41,427 $7,543 KIDS REHABGYM 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.