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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Roger Riccio 2014 Executive Director $28,206 $0 GREAT FALLS REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
George Cook 2015 Club Director $28,200 $0 CAPITAL SOCCER CLUB INC
Holly Betit 2016 Executive Dir. $28,188 $0 NEW ENGLAND TROPICAL CONSERVATORY INC
Jessa Barnard 2017 Executive Vp $28,172 $9,530 VERMONT MEDICAL SOCIETY
Harris Linge 2013 Libr. Director $28,080 $0 BLAKE MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Hannah Schwartz 2014 Executive Director/Trustee $28,063 $4,029 HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION
Lindsey Desrochers 2015 Director $28,042 $7,886 THE BELLWETHER SCHOOL AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC
Karen Kevra 2017 Artistic Dir $28,000 $0 CAPITAL CITY CONCERTS INC
Jonathan Potter 2015 Mng Director $28,000 $0 LATCHIS ARTS INC
Chase Ackerman 2017 Treasurer/Em $27,999 $0 FIRST BRANCH AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Jared Carter 2016 Executive Dir. $27,833 $0 CUBAN AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY INC
Kesha Ram 2017 Director $27,806 $0 CENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES INC
Julie Brophy 2016 Director $27,806 $0 JOURNEY NORTH
Cheri O'Neill 2013 Director $27,795 $0 GREATER NORTHFIELD SENIOR CITIZENS INC
Terry Difazio 2017 Director $27,707 $4,504 NORTHEAST ACCESS COMMITTEE
Nancy Kaplan 2013 Executive Director $27,702 $0 CENTER FOR MINDFUL LEARNING INC
Mark W Mcelroy 2017 Director $27,700 $0 CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE ORGANIZATIONS INC
Elizabeth Claud 2015 Executive Director $27,662 $0 HIGH HORSES THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM
Jonathan Gilbert 2014 Finance Director/Trustee $27,660 $4,029 HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION
Nicole Jorgensen 2015 Executive Director $27,625 $0 HIGH HORSES THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM
Adriana Curutchet 2016 Secretary And Treasurer $27,605 $0 THE BRIDGEWATER SUSTAINABLE EARTH FOUNDATION INC
Betsy Cabrera 2014 Executive Director $27,600 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
Paul Burns 2017 Executive Director $27,532 $23,076 VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC
Pattrice Jones 2017 Chief Operat $27,520 $0 VINE-VEGANISM IS THE NEXT EVOLUTION INCORPORATED
Carly G Stine 2016 Program Manager $27,504 $0 TECHNOLOGY FOR TOMORROW 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.