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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Carolyn Atchinson 2016 Operations M $29,631 $1,787 COMMUNITY OF VERMONT ELDERS
Elizabeth Holmes 2017 Faculty/Trustee $29,600 $4,084 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Jaime L Bedard 2016 Executive Dir. $29,588 $0 JUST BASICS INC
Jim Condon 2013 Executive Director $29,565 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS INC
Victoria Chaffee 2016 Executive Director $29,558 $0 ORANGE EAST SENIOR CENTER INC
Hannah Schwartz 2013 Executive Director/Trustee $29,528 $4,029 HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION
Jonathan Gilbert 2013 Finance Director/Trustee $29,528 $4,029 HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION
Robert Kropp 2014 Bookkeeper $29,525 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Meghan Sheradin 2017 Former Exec Dir $29,454 $0 VERMONT FRESH NETWORK CORPORATION
Erika Floriani 2016 Director Of Ops & Market $29,423 $0 OLDCASTLE PRODUCTIONS
Sara Hatch 2016 Trustee $29,400 $1,500 HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION
Various 2014 Bartenders & Staff $29,394 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Lisa Sausville 2013 Executive Director $29,332 $0 VERMONT COVERTS
Christine Ryan 2014 Executive Director $29,325 $0 ANA-VERMONT INC
Jean Ann Desranleau 2013 Executive Di $29,286 $0 THE CHAMPLAIN ADAPTIVE MOUNTED PROGRAM
Michael Caduto 2014 Director $29,274 $0 FRIENDS OF THE MORRILL HOMESTEAD INC
Lynn Billado 2013 Vice-President $29,213 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY RESCUE INC
Sharon Birkheimer Rooker 2013 Executive Direc $29,200 $0 HOME BUILERS & REMODELERS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN VERMONT
Donna Dawson 2016 Executive Dir. $29,141 $500 WESTMINSTER CARES INCORPORATED
Lynn Billado 2016 President $29,134 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY RESCUE INC
Rachel Bickford 2016 Director $29,087 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM PRESCHOOL AND CHILDCARE CORP
Benjamin Kinsley Former 2017 Executive Dir. $29,029 $0 CAMPAIGN FOR VERMONT PROSPERITY INC
Justin G Wicks 2017 Treasurer $29,000 $0 CARTER INC
Christine Porter 2015 Director $29,000 $0 WINDSOR PUBLIC LIBRARY
Allen Cummings 2015 Key Emp $28,990 $0 EAST BURKE SCHOOL 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.