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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jacqueline Fischer 2014 Executive Director $36,053 $1,082 OTTAUQUECHEE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP
Traci Lamarche 2013 Business Mgr $36,051 $0 THE CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY
Mark Naud 2013 Executive Di $36,000 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC
Charles Callahan 2014 Treasurer $36,000 $0 VERMONT CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC
Eric Steenstra 2014 President $36,000 $0 VOTE HEMP
Jim Condon 2016 Executive Director $36,000 $4,027 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS INC
Eric Steenstra 2015 President/Director $36,000 $0 VOTE HEMP
Marcela Pino 2014 Co-Director $36,000 $0 FOOD 4 FARMERS
Janice Nadworny 2014 Co-Director $36,000 $0 FOOD 4 FARMERS
Mark Sustic 2017 Executive Dir. $36,000 $0 YOUNG TRADITION VERMONT INC
Charles Callahan 2015 Treasurer $36,000 $12,549 VERMONT CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC
Sarah Alberghini Winters 2016 Executive Director $36,000 $0 VERMONT PARKS FOREVER INC
Charles Callahan 2016 Treasurer $36,000 $8,143 VERMONT CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC
Mark Sustic 2016 Executiveartistic Director $36,000 $0 YOUNG TRADITION VERMONT INC
Sarah Alberghini Winters 2017 Executive Director $36,000 $0 VERMONT PARKS FOREVER INC
Charles Callahan 2013 Treasurer $36,000 $9,872 VERMONT CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC
John Ruckert 2016 Vp-Operations $36,000 $0 ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION RISK INSTITUTE INC
Kenneth Sigsbury 2016 Director $36,000 $0 TURNING POINT CLUB OF BENNINGTON
John Ruckert 2017 Vp-Operations $36,000 $0 ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION RISK INSTITUTE INC
Mark Sustic 2015 President $36,000 $0 YOUNG TRADITION VERMONT INC
Shifra Levine 2016 Faculty Representative $35,997 $13,579 UPPER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Crystal Furtado 2014 Dir $35,989 $0 SOJOURNS COMMUNITY CLINIC INC
Molly Kennedy 2017 Employee $35,973 $0 BRANDON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
Tina Grant 2014 Prog Director $35,968 $0 PB AND J INC
Jim Smith 2014 Director $35,968 $0 UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

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.