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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Debra Wyman 2014 President $27,040 $0 HOME AWAY FROM HOME
Marc Richter 2014 Vice President $27,017 $0 NETWORKS INC
Karen Kevra 2013 Artistic Dir. $27,000 $0 CAPITAL CITY CONCERTS INC
Karen Kevra 2014 Artistic Dir $27,000 $0 CAPITAL CITY CONCERTS INC
Dana Vainauskiene 2016 Assistant Executive Director $27,000 $0 CAMP NERINGA INC
Regina Kulbis 2016 Executive Director $27,000 $0 CAMP NERINGA INC
Russell Bradbury-Carlin 2015 Executive Dir. $27,000 $0 YOUTH SERVICES
Jim Condon 2015 Executive Director $27,000 $10,741 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS INC
Kathy Avellino 2015 Assistant Director $27,000 $0 WOODSTOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Nancy Cathcart 2013 E.D. As Of 7 $26,985 $2,139 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Debra Wyman 2013 President $26,980 $0 HOME AWAY FROM HOME
Rebecca Seibel 2015 Librarian $26,933 $0 MORRILL MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Jay Cummings 2013 Outgoing Exe $26,923 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Dana Michalovic 2014 Executive Director $26,922 $0 GOOD NEIGHBOR HEALTH CLINIC INC
Elizabeth Langfeldt 2015 Director Of Operations $26,856 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
Darcy Evans 2014 Prog Coordinator $26,835 $0 ESSEX CHIPS INC
Dr Joseph Hazasi 2013 Secretary $26,800 $0 FRANCIS FOUNDATION INC
Mark W Mcelroy 2014 Director $26,780 $0 CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE ORGANIZATIONS INC
Rachel Siegel 2016 Business Manager $26,710 $1,750 FAIRBANKS MUSEUM AND PLANETARIUM
Rev Msgr Peter Routhier 2015 Board Member $26,688 $0 VERMONT CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC
Lisa S Lynch 2016 Office Executive Director $26,651 $0 ARC RUTLAND AREA INC
Linda Kuban 2016 Director/Man $26,621 $0 FIRST BRANCH AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Beth Merrill 2015 Executive Director, Board <Ember $26,600 $1,200 PLANTING HOPE INC
Beth Merrill 2014 Executive Director, Board Member $26,600 $600 PLANTING HOPE INC
Beth Merrill 2016 Executive Director, Board Member $26,600 $1,212 PLANTING HOPE 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.