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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lynne Bertrand 2014 Executive Di $36,500 $0 VERMONTS NORTH COUNTRY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCORPORATED
Dustin Byerly 2013 Trustee $36,500 $0 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Cameron Beauchamp 2017 Director $36,500 $0 ROOMFUL OF TEETH VOCAL ARTS PROJECT INC
Jeannine Riley 2015 Cfo Beginning 7/2015 $36,491 $3,497 BATTENKILL VALLEY HEALTH CENTER INC
Jon Bouffard 2013 Assistant Director $36,482 $0 CALEDONIA-ESSEX AREA AMBULANCE
Charlotte M Maker 2015 Teacher $36,460 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Aaron Rakow 2013 President $36,438 $0 STEPS PROGRAM INC
Diane Coburn 2017 Director $36,400 $0 ST JOHNSBURY NUTRITIONAL CENTER
Rachel Bickford 2017 Program Director $36,400 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM PRESCHOOL AND CHILDCARE CORP
Cynthia Clarke 2015 Director $36,385 $2,183 BRIDGE SCHOOL INC
Amanda Warren 2015 Director $36,385 $2,183 BRIDGE SCHOOL INC
Noah Hoffman 2015 Director $36,385 $2,183 BRIDGE SCHOOL INC
Micki Paddock 2015 Director $36,385 $2,183 BRIDGE SCHOOL INC
Nicholas Tarr 2016 Executive Director $36,355 $6,076 WHITE RIVER VALLEY AMBULANCE INC
Emily Wadhams 2013 Consultant 2013 / Director 2014 $36,310 $0 PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC
James Haslam 2017 Executive Dir. $36,299 $0 RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND INC
Kristin Moodie 2015 Executive Di $36,295 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN KIDS AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM INC
Kristin Moodie 2016 Executive Di $36,280 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN KIDS AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM INC
Cameron Beauchamp 2016 Director $36,250 $0 ROOMFUL OF TEETH VOCAL ARTS PROJECT INC
Dia Lind 2015 Principal $36,250 $0 RUTLAND AREA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
Martha Carey 2017 Administrator $36,237 $0 COMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD INC
Serenity Smith Forchion 2015 Executive Dir. $36,225 $0 NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTSINC
Jennifer Caswell 2015 Program Dire $36,213 $0 CAMBRIDGE AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM
Matt Powers 2013 Director $36,168 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Marion Posner 2015 Shelter Director $36,121 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY 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.