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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Gregory Knapp 2016 Social Room Manager $35,955 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Suzanne Fitzsimmons 2017 Cfo $35,901 $0 RECOVERY HOUSE INC
Kim Woolover 2013 Exec Director $35,886 $0 GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN
Alex Stradling 2017 Executive Di $35,880 $0 FALLS AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Charlotte M Maker 2014 Teacher $35,877 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Jonathan Gilbert 2016 Finance Director/Trustee $35,856 $0 HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION
Crystal Lampman - Left Board In 201 2017 Director $35,842 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY CARING COMMUNITIES INC
Carolyn Buchanan 2015 Operations M $35,840 $2,965 COMMUNITY OF VERMONT ELDERS
Diane Coburn 2014 Director $35,828 $0 ST JOHNSBURY NUTRITIONAL CENTER
Diane Coburn 2016 Director $35,824 $0 ST JOHNSBURY NUTRITIONAL CENTER
Karen Nevin 2015 Executive Director $35,781 $0 VALLEY ARTS FOUNDATION INC
Anika Klem 2016 Director You $35,775 $0 EARTHWALK VERMONT
Pamela Krausz 2014 President/Treasurer $35,770 $2,145 VERMONT COMPANION ANIMAL NEUTERING INC
Erin Evans 2014 Program Coordinator $35,752 $0 CYSTIC FIBROSIS LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION
Karol Smith 2015 Wasca Direct $35,745 $0 WATERBURY AREA SENIOR CITIZENS ASSN
Erik Peterson 2013 Director $35,730 $0 OLDCASTLE PRODUCTIONS
Katie Amadon 2013 Director $35,706 $0 POKER HILL SCHOOL INC
Sally Miller 2016 Executive Director $35,700 $2,500 SUSTAINABLE WOODSTOCK INC
Karen Duguay 2017 Director $35,673 $0 MIDDLEBURY BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
Karen Duguay 2016 Director $35,673 $0 MIDDLEBURY BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
Christine Scherding 2014 Administrative Director $35,656 $17,061 UPPER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
James Alasdair Groves 2017 President & Executive Dire $35,652 $5,812 TWIN STATE CHRISTIAN COUNSELING INC
Bradley Wells 2016 Artistic Dir $35,625 $0 ROOMFUL OF TEETH VOCAL ARTS PROJECT INC
Angelike Contis 2014 Executive Director $35,618 $4,735 MOUNT MANSFIELD COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Emily Alger 2016 Executive Director $35,540 $6,389 SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST 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.