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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Amanda Warren 2016 Mentor $40,636 $2,444 BRIDGE SCHOOL INC
Patrick Rooney 2017 Chief Financial Official $40,635 $3,662 ADDISON COUNTY HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE INC
Kerry Malloy 2014 Teacher $40,627 $5,375 LINCOLN CO-OPERATIVE PRE-SCHOOL INC
Charles Putnam 2016 Trustee $40,627 $1,142 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Paula J Kobylarz-Wehde 2015 Program Director $40,618 $0 WINDSOR AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Mary Russ 2013 Executive Director $40,608 $0 WHITE RIVER PARTNERSHIP INC
Shawn Perry 2016 Co-Exec. Dir. $40,606 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Allison Caldwell 2016 Co-Exec. Dir. $40,606 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Elizabeth Crane 2016 Executive Director $40,600 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY CARING COMMUNITIES INC
Heidi Sulis 2013 Chairperson $40,550 $0 COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES OF ADDISON COUNTY
Linda Huebner 2014 Executive Dir. $40,539 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Kyle Hibbard 2016 Director $40,457 $0 POKER HILL SCHOOL INC
Kyle Hibbard 2015 Director $40,457 $0 POKER HILL SCHOOL INC
Laurie Emerson 2014 Executive Director $40,450 $0 NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF VERMONT INC
Jane Gras 2013 Co-Director $40,438 $0 NORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL INC
Syndi Zook 2017 Former Exec. $40,408 $0 LYRIC THEATRE COMPANY
Marisa Stam 2017 Executive Di $40,385 $0 SELAMTA FAMILY PROJECT INC
Christopher Oldham 2015 Executive Director $40,384 $0 BENNINGTON COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
Becky Stevens 2014 $40,359 $0 RUTLAND COUNTRY CLUB INC
Bronwyn Conboy 2014 Executive Director $40,350 $6,056 SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC
Syndi Zook 2016 Executive Di $40,323 $7,910 LYRIC THEATRE COMPANY
Beth Finlayson 2015 Director $40,320 $7,591 WOODSTOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Elaine Haytko 2017 Executive Director $40,310 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION INC
Elizabeth Karle 2016 Finance Dir $40,270 $17,407 SPRING LAKE RANCH INC
Valerie Brosseau 2013 Executive Director $40,206 $0 ANEW PLACE 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.