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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Sarah Laird 2017 Co-Director $37,500 $0 PEOPLE & PLANTS INTERNAIONAL INC
Laurie Marcoux 2015 Interim Executive Director $37,495 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY UNIT FOR SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS
Charlotte M Maker 2016 Teacher $37,461 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
William Moran 2017 Executive Director Beg 7/1/17 $37,460 $0 ESSEX RESCUE INC
Noah Hoffman 2014 Director $37,454 $175 BRIDGE SCHOOL INC
Robert Kropp 2015 Bookkeeper $37,429 $2,934 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Brystol Rayno 2013 Director - Staff $37,415 $0 THE CHILD CARE CENTER IN NORWICH INC
Andy Kolovos 2014 Co-Director $37,385 $1,869 VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER
Gail Albertelli 2015 Secretary $37,363 $7,062 FRANKLIN COUNTY INDUSTRIAL
Nicola Morris 2015 Trustee $37,354 $2,621 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Nancy Elder 2013 Exec Directo $37,336 $4,441 CHARLOTTE DAY CARE CENTER INC
Kevin C Harrington 2015 Ceo $37,311 $0 JILL E HARRINGTON HANZALIK MEMORIAL FUND INC
Sage Tucker-Ketcham 2013 Executive Director $37,298 $0 SHELBURNE ART CENTER CORPORATION
Susan Vigne 2014 Director $37,250 $0 AURORA SCHOOL
Joshua Ramsdell 2014 Director $37,221 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY RESCUE INC
Brian Benoit 2014 Director $37,221 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY RESCUE INC
Paula J Kobylarz-Wehde 2013 Program Director $37,200 $0 WINDSOR AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Stephen P Adams Md 2015 Secretary/ Treasurer $37,197 $0 UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTER INC
Peter Espenshade 2013 Executive Dir. $37,164 $6,487 VERMONT ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION RECOVERY INC
Tina Grant 2013 Program Directo $37,135 $0 PB AND J INC
Peggy Roche 2015 Faculty $37,089 $0 ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Donna Rutherford 2013 Board Treasurer $37,060 $0 NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL
Manuel O'Neill 2015 Trustee $37,060 $1,577 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Jody Lowes 2016 Director $37,058 $0 CREATIVE PRESCHOOL INC
Serenity Smith Forchion 2014 Executive Dir. $37,013 $0 NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTSINC

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.