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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Phayvanh Luekhamhan 2013 Executive Direc $31,630 $0 MONTPELIER DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
Kim Bent 2013 President $31,615 $0 LOST NATION THEATER INC
Kathleen Keenan 2013 Board Member $31,615 $0 LOST NATION THEATER INC
Dan Connor 2016 Executive Director $31,608 $0 VERMONT BEEF INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC
Patrick Reeves 2017 Treasurer An $31,581 $0 CENTRAL VT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Peter Reed 2017 President & Executive Director $31,557 $0 GLOBAL RESPONSE MANAGEMENT INC
Gregory Camp 2017 Executive Director $31,542 $0 VERMONT FUNERAL DIRECTORS & EMBALMERS ASSOCIATION
Benjamin Kinsley 2015 Executive Dir. $31,538 $9,800 CAMPAIGN FOR VERMONT PROSPERITY INC
Christopher Wood 2015 Executive Director $31,500 $0 BUILDING A LOCAL ECONOMY
Lisamarie Charleworth 2016 Chamber Mana $31,500 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Lynne Dapice 2013 Executive Director $31,408 $0 ANA-VERMONT INC
Richard Noel 2017 Trustee $31,371 $0 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Paul Rocheleau 2017 Director $31,362 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY RESCUE INC
Amanda Donovan 2017 Head Teacher $31,345 $0 PRESCHOOL AT FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC
Rik Poduschnick 2017 Cfo $31,301 $0 PARENT - CHILD CENTER INC
Gloria Van Den Berg 2014 Executive Dir. $31,299 $0 ALYSSUM INC
James Tewksbury 2017 Director $31,293 $939 GLOBAL CAMPUSES FOUNDATION
Karen Kevra 2015 Artistic Dir $31,233 $0 CAPITAL CITY CONCERTS INC
Heather Morris 2016 Executive Dir. $31,200 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN PERFORMING ARTS INC
Heather Morris 2017 Executive Dir. $31,200 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN PERFORMING ARTS INC
Debra Wyman 2016 Director $31,200 $0 HOME AWAY FROM HOME
Brad Ashley 2015 Interim Chief Executive Officer $31,200 $0 GILMAN HOUSING TRUST INC
Sarah Laird 2015 Co-Director $31,200 $0 PEOPLE & PLANTS INTERNAIONAL INC
Amanda Merk 2017 Executive Director $31,187 $929 NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY
Bonnie Ferro 2014 Former Executive Director $31,154 $0 EVERYBODY WINS VERMONT 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.