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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Maria Basescu 2016 Executive Director $41,000 $0 NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INCORPORATED
Stephen P Adams Md 2016 Secretary/ Treasurer $41,000 $0 UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTER INC
Bill Neukomm 2016 Executive Direc $40,992 $415 COVER HOME REPAIR INC
Michael Kennedy Md 2016 Medical Staff President $40,988 $0 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Marion Posner 2014 Shelter Director $40,961 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Allison Caldwell 2017 Co-Exec. Dir. $40,960 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Shawn Perry 2017 Co-Exec. Dir. $40,960 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Carol Driscoll 2015 Executive Director $40,957 $0 CARVING STUDIO AND SCULPTURE CENTER
Teena Betourney 2014 Co-Director $40,937 $0 MIDDLEBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC
Elizabeth Malone 2013 Executive Di $40,934 $0 NORTHWEST P E G TV INCORPORATED
Laura Litchfield 2015 Co-Director $40,920 $0 VERMONT CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVEHERBALISM
Pamela Krausz 2016 President $40,898 $0 VERMONT COMPANION ANIMAL NEUTERING INC
Robert Anderegg 2013 Assoc. Director $40,872 $5,485 FOUR WINDS NATURE INSTITUTEINCORPORATED
Katy Crowe 2014 Trustee/Teacher $40,812 $7,958 LAKE CHAMPLAIN WALDORF SCHOOL
David Gavett 2017 Former Headmstr $40,800 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Douglas Radziewicz 2013 Executive Dir. $40,794 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Mike Johnson 2015 Executive Director $40,769 $0 TURNING POINT RECOVERY CENTER OF SPRINGFIELD VERMONT
Michael Steinruek 2017 Board Member $40,749 $0 INNER FIRE
Betsy Perry 2014 Development $40,727 $10,515 LUMUNOS INC
Jessica Schmidt 2017 Executive Director $40,708 $0 ORANGE COUNTY DIVERSION PROGRAM
Kip Dalury 2015 Business Manager $40,701 $0 VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI & SPORTS
Donna Rutherford 2014 Board Treasurer $40,673 $0 NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL
Gloria Van Den Berg 2015 Executive Dir. $40,667 $0 ALYSSUM INC
Katy Crowe 2015 Trustee/Teacher $40,654 $8,765 LAKE CHAMPLAIN WALDORF SCHOOL
Lisa Sausville 2015 Executive Di $40,641 $0 VERMONT COVERTS

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.