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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jim Condon 2014 Executive Director $32,710 $9,336 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS INC
Linda Doty 2017 Manager $32,703 $0 VERMONT MARBLE MUSEUM INC
Harris Linge 2015 Libr. Director $32,700 $0 BLAKE MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Karen Nevin 2013 Executive Director $32,692 $0 VALLEY ARTS FOUNDATION INC
Elizabeth Crane 2015 Executive Director $32,648 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY CARING COMMUNITIES INC
Hannah Schwartz 2015 Executive Director/Trustee $32,636 $4,029 HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION
Nicola Morris 2014 Trustee $32,622 $3,214 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Joseph Hazasi 2015 Secretary $32,600 $0 FRANCIS FOUNDATION INC
Teia Bolio 2015 Store Manager $32,540 $0 WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST INC
Patricia Nowlan 2014 Show Coordinator $32,513 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
Caitlin Christiana 2016 Executive Vice President $32,500 $0 SPRINGFIELD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Chloe Budnick 2013 Secretary $32,437 $5,100 ONION RIVER EXCHANGE
Deb Partridge 2017 Director $32,405 $0 UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
Shannon O'Brien 2014 Director $32,397 $8,342 NORTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE INCORPORATED
Martha Carey 2015 Administrator $32,381 $0 COMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD INC
Jeannie Macleod 2016 Executive Direc $32,365 $0 GREATER BARRE COMMUNITY JUSTICE CENTER
Allen Cummings 2014 Key Emp $32,344 $0 EAST BURKE SCHOOL INC
John Dyer 2017 Head Coach $32,310 $0 DRAGONHEART VERMONT INCORPORATED
Timothy Ford 2013 Ceo/President $32,309 $0 SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CARE SYSTEMS INC
Berta Maginniss 2016 Executive Dir. $32,307 $0 WILSON HOUSE OF EAST DORSET
Jane Campbell 2017 Executive Dir. $32,300 $2,550 VERMONT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Jacqueling Gabe 2016 Board Member $32,282 $0 ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Sally Miller 2014 Executive Director $32,246 $2,000 SUSTAINABLE WOODSTOCK INC
Edward Holtz 2013 Former Executive Director $32,229 $0 CENTER FOR MINDFUL LEARNING INC
Jody Woos 2014 Executive Director $32,225 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

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.