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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Stacie Rose 2016 Secretary $28,985 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY RESCUE INC
Meghan Sheridan 2017 Executive Dir. $28,941 $0 VERMONT GRASS FARMERS ASSOCIATION
Ann Smith 2016 Excutive Dir. $28,824 $864 FRIENDS OF THE WINOOSKI RIVER INCORPORATED
Debra Wyman 2015 Director $28,728 $0 HOME AWAY FROM HOME
Gretchen Elias 2017 Executive Dir. $28,704 $0 GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT
Gretchen Elias 2016 Executive Dir. $28,704 $0 GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT
Sarah Rooker 2016 Director $28,660 $0 FLOW OF HISTORY INC
Judith Joy 2015 Board Member $28,620 $0 GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN
Carol Reed 2015 Trustee/Teacher $28,607 $5,434 LAKE CHAMPLAIN WALDORF SCHOOL
Tanya Towndrow 2015 Shelter Director $28,560 $0 GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN
Jenn Lestage 2017 Former Executive Director $28,546 $0 CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS PARENT CHILD CENTER
Charles Putnam 2015 Trustee (Since Dec. 2015) $28,514 $0 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Mike Johnson 2013 Executive Director $28,462 $0 TURNING POINT RECOVERY CENTER OF SPRINGFIELD VERMONT
Marcia Milton 2013 Vice President $28,458 $0 NETWORKS INC
Tom Murphy 2013 National Outreach Coordina $28,400 $0 VOTE HEMP
Alice Leeds 2014 Vice Chair $28,323 $3,392 NORTHEAST ADDISON TELEVISION INCORPORATED
Jeff Fuller 2015 Executive Director $28,322 $600 CONNECTING HOPE INC
Guy Stallworthy 2013 President/Ceo $28,308 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Scott Peck 2013 Executive Director (Part Yr) $28,270 $0 ST JOHNSBURY WORKS
Deborah Ingram 2014 Executive Di $28,258 $29,336 VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC
Deborah Ingram 2015 Executive Di $28,258 $29,248 VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC
Jefferey Kolok 2016 Chief Executive Officer $28,249 $0 SLAMT1D INC
Andrea Cohen 2015 Executive Dir. $28,230 $831 VERMONT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Noah Francis Bullock 2017 Executive Director $28,217 $7,706 CRISTOSAL INC
Bonnie Burke 2013 President $28,210 $0 WILSON HOUSE OF EAST DORSET

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.