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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Andrea Stander 2013 Executive Director $41,423 $0 RURAL EDUCATION ACTION PROJECT
Ani Hawkinson 2016 Executive Director $41,417 $0 HEARTSONG HEALTH IN COMMUNITY
Laurie Brown 2017 Chef-Nutritionist Guide $41,408 $0 INNER FIRE
Carol Driscoll 2016 Executive Director $41,390 $0 CARVING STUDIO AND SCULPTURE CENTER
Tina Grant 2016 Director $41,350 $0 PB AND J INC
Jennifer Grant 2015 Executive Dir. $41,333 $0 WINDSOR COUNTY PARTNERS
Aida Luce-Reed 2013 Vice President $41,328 $0 NETWORKS INC
Erin Evans 2015 Program Coordinator $41,295 $0 CYSTIC FIBROSIS LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION
Owen Milne Starting 6517 2017 Executive Di $41,295 $2,725 LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC
Phyllis Arata-Meyers 2015 President $41,292 $0 CHANGE THE WORLD KIDS INC
Daniel Quinlan 2016 Business Dir $41,250 $12,512 LUMUNOS INC
Syndi Zook 2014 Executive Di $41,231 $7,535 LYRIC THEATRE COMPANY
Stephen Bryant 2016 Treasurer $41,230 $1,227 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Joshua Ramsdell 2017 Vice President $41,230 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY RESCUE INC
Deb Wolf 2017 Executive Direc $41,224 $0 WASHINGTON CENTRAL FRIENDS OF EDUCATION INC
Cynthia Boyd 2017 Executive Director $41,220 $0 KINGDOM RECOVERY CENTER INC
Mary Marriott 2014 Trustee $41,214 $0 SPECIALIZED COMMUNITY CARE
Tammy Mosher 2015 Executive Dir. $41,196 $0 STRATTON MOUNTAIN & VALLEY COMMUNITY BENEFIT FOUNDATION
Joslyn Cassady 2016 Mentor $41,156 $2,469 BRIDGE SCHOOL INC
Tammy Duclos 2017 Assistant Director $41,075 $0 RUTLAND CITY RESCUE MISSION INC
Tammy Duclos 2016 Assistant Director $41,075 $0 RUTLAND CITY RESCUE MISSION INC
Susan Jones 2014 Finacial Business Manager $41,068 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INCORPORATED
Elisabeth Crane 2017 Executive Director $41,055 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY CARING COMMUNITIES INC
Michelle Laflam 2013 Executive Director $41,004 $0 GREENSBORO COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER
Laura Streets 2014 Festival Director $41,000 $0 VERMONT BREWERS ASSOCIATION 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.