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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Robin Pugh 2016 Manager $33,949 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL AUXILIARY INC
Shannon Simard 2017 Executive Di $33,937 $0 CHARLOTTE DAY CARE CENTER INC
Manuel O'Neill 2016 Trustee $33,871 $2,484 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Sharon Pinsonneault 2013 Co-Director $33,868 $0 BRIDGE SCHOOL INC
Lisa Hill 2016 Chief $33,855 $0 CAMBRIDGE RESCUE SQUAD INC
Brenda Mccartney 2016 Director Of Finance $33,846 $0 HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
Dawn Hiscock-Fecteau 2013 Head Teacher $33,827 $0 PRESCHOOL AT FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC
Sara Armstrong Donegan 2017 Director $33,827 $0 CARPENTER-CARSE LIBRARY
Jonathan Gilbert 2015 Finance Director/Trustee $33,812 $4,029 HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION
Patricia Austin 2013 Ex. Dir. $33,810 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY COURT DIVERSION INC
Jacob Stradling 2013 Executive Director $33,800 $0 FALLS AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Harris Burlack 2016 Interim Head Of School $33,708 $3,000 BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC
Emily Alger 2015 Exec. Director (Part Year) $33,623 $3,384 SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC
Anika Klem 2015 Director You $33,619 $0 EARTHWALK VERMONT
Gary De Carolis 2013 Executive Di $33,563 $0 TURNING POINT CENTER OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY INC
Greg Camp 2014 Executive Director $33,500 $0 VERMONT FUNERAL DIRECTORS & EMBALMERS ASSOCIATION
Greg Camp 2016 Executive Director $33,500 $0 VERMONT FUNERAL DIRECTORS & EMBALMERS ASSOCIATION
Greg Camp 2015 Executive Director $33,500 $0 VERMONT FUNERAL DIRECTORS & EMBALMERS ASSOCIATION
Beatrice Birch 2016 President $33,480 $33,480 INNER FIRE
Mary Arbuckle 2016 Secretary $33,480 $0 NORTHEAST ADDISON TELEVISION INCORPORATED
Jill Olson 2016 Executive Dir. $33,461 $1,004 VERMONT ASSEMBLY OF HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE AGENCIES INC
Robin Pugh 2015 Manager $33,385 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL AUXILIARY INC
Madison Monty 2015 Secretary/Office Manager $33,371 $0 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
Brenda Mccartney 2017 Director Of Finance $33,337 $0 HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
Melissa Murray 2013 Executive Director $33,335 $0 OUTRIGHT VERMONT

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.