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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Rachael Z Miller 2017 President $40,000 $0 ROZALIA PROJECT
Kathleen Campbell 2015 Education Director/Secretary/Treasurer $40,000 $0 LYNDON EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVE RESOURCES NETWORK INC
Mike Johnson 2016 Director $40,000 $0 TURNING POINT RECOVERY CENTER OF SPRINGFIELD VERMONT
Beth Finlayson 2016 Director $40,000 $9,702 WOODSTOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Marisa Stam 2016 Executive Di $40,000 $0 SELAMTA FAMILY PROJECT INC
Alexandra Halkin 2016 Executive Dir. $40,000 $1,799 AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP
Cd 2016 Jon Hoover $40,000 $0 WESTGATE HOUSING INC
Eugene Uman 2015 Executive Di $40,000 $0 VERMONT JAZZ CENTER INC
Yvonne Woodcock 2013 Key Emp $40,000 $0 EAST BURKE SCHOOL INC
Brandon Bergey 2016 Executive Director $40,000 $6,457 BETHANY BIRCHES CAMP INC
Sabra L Davison 2016 Director, President And Treasurer $40,000 $0 BELLAS MENTORING INC
Syndi Zook 2015 Executive Di $40,000 $7,523 LYRIC THEATRE COMPANY
Ellen Serra 2013 Director - Adult Day Services $40,000 $0 OXBOW SENIOR INDEPENDENCE PROGRAM INC
Brandon Bergey 2017 Executive Director $40,000 $4,400 BETHANY BIRCHES CAMP INC
Shannon O'Brien 2015 Director $40,000 $9,364 NORTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE INCORPORATED
Michael Wiese 2015 Executive Director $40,000 $0 SPRINGFIELD FAMILY CENTER INC
Carol Miklos 2013 Executive Director $40,000 $0 AIA VERMONT
Amy Carst 2017 Director $39,980 $0 MALAYAKA HOUSE INC
Amy Carst 2016 Director $39,970 $0 MALAYAKA HOUSE INC
Kerry Malloy 2013 Teacher $39,946 $3,142 LINCOLN CO-OPERATIVE PRE-SCHOOL INC
Penni Cross 2017 Executive Dir. $39,937 $0 DRAGONHEART VERMONT INCORPORATED
Tiffany Bluemle 2016 Former Executive Director $39,936 $0 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
Carolyn Begley 2017 Faculty Representative $39,915 $27,796 UPPER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Rebecca Brooks 2013 Vice President $39,893 $0 NETWORKS INC
Helen Riehle 2014 Executive Co-Director $39,891 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INCORPORATED

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.