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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Linda Dyer 2016 Founder $39,305 $0 DRAGONHEART VERMONT INCORPORATED
Pamela Scott 2013 Financial Manager $39,293 $0 CALEDONIA-ESSEX AREA AMBULANCE
Elsie Smith 2016 Artistic Dir $39,270 $0 NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTSINC
Allison Caldwell 2014 Co-Exec. Dir. $39,267 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Shawn Perry 2014 Co-Exec. Dir. $39,267 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Sherri Brickey 2015 Library Director $39,163 $6,299 BROWN PUBLIC LIBRARY
Carolyn Begley 2016 Faculty Representative $39,160 $26,188 UPPER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Kimberley Gouger 2015 Vp-Consumer Lending $39,135 $1,499 RIVER VALLEY CREDIT UNION
Scott John Ward 2013 Vice President $39,113 $0 NETWORKS INC
Lisa Sausville 2014 Executive Di $39,109 $0 VERMONT COVERTS
Noah Hoffman 2016 Mentor $39,106 $2,346 BRIDGE SCHOOL INC
Cynthia Clarke 2016 Mentor $39,106 $2,346 BRIDGE SCHOOL INC
Molly Kennedy 2015 Employee $39,078 $0 BRANDON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
Deborah M Carroll 2017 Excecutive D $39,008 $0 LAMOILLE REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CORP
Lori Darrah 2013 Exec-Dir/Pres $39,004 $0 FAIR HAVEN VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC
Stephanie Thomson 2013 Manager $39,000 $0 VERMONT ENERGY PARTNERSHIP INC
Maria Basescu 2014 Executive Director $39,000 $3,000 NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INCORPORATED
Mary Arbuckle 2017 Secretary $39,000 $0 NORTHEAST ADDISON TELEVISION INCORPORATED
Maria Basescu 2013 Executive Director $39,000 $3,000 NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INCORPORATED
Janice Marinelli 2016 Executive Director $39,000 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Stephanie Mueller 2013 Finance Manager $38,965 $4,563 VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC
Susan Hull 2015 Clinic Coord $38,953 $0 SOUTH ROYALTON SCHOOL-BASE HEALTH CLINC INC
Paula J Kobylarz-Wehde 2014 Program Director $38,940 $0 WINDSOR AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Gail Albertelli 2017 Secretary $38,937 $7,330 FRANKLIN COUNTY INDUSTRIAL
John Murphy 2013 Rink Manager $38,909 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT MEMORIAL CIVIC CENTER 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.