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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Beth Merrill 2016 Executive Director, Board Member $26,600 $1,212 PLANTING HOPE INC
Alison Lamagna 2015 Executive Director $26,595 $0 GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT
Eric Tidblom 2015 Trustee $26,574 $9,529 HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION
Blair Sebastian 2015 Interim Executive Director $26,550 $0 SHIRES HOUSING INC
Leonard Barrett 2013 Grounds Manager $26,541 $0 ADDISON COUNTY FAIR AND FIELD DAYS INC
Laurie Beth Putnam 2015 Director $26,520 $0 GREATER NORTHFIELD SENIOR CITIZENS INC
Donald Wright 2013 Secretary $26,513 $0 HOME BASE INC
Janice Nadworny 2013 Director $26,500 $0 FOOD 4 FARMERS
Mimi Arnstein 2015 President $26,434 $0 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
Barbara 2013 Ball $26,416 $0 WINDSOR PUBLIC LIBRARY
Guido Mase 2015 Treasurer $26,400 $0 VERMONT CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVEHERBALISM
Christine Ryan 2015 Executive Director $26,400 $0 ANA-VERMONT INC
Stephen Bryant 2015 Treasurer $26,338 $2,049 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Rebecca Duranleau 2015 Executive Director $26,331 $0 OUR HOUSE OF CENTRAL VT INC
Adam P Harrington 2014 President $26,301 $2,477 JILL E HARRINGTON HANZALIK MEMORIAL FUND INC
Dave Yocovone 2014 Executive Director (Start 9/8/14) $26,280 $2,479 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Elizabeth Cote 2013 Exec. Dir. (To 2/15/13) $26,271 $0 VERMONT STATE DENTAL SOCIETY
Lisa S Lynch 2015 Office Executive Director $26,270 $0 ARC RUTLAND AREA INC
Ned Farquhar 2017 Executive Director $26,261 $0 MAD RIVER PATH ASSOCIATION
Victor Guadagno 2014 President/Board $26,244 $0 BRIGHT BLUE INC
Carolyn White 2015 Director $26,216 $0 CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS PARENT CHILD CENTER
Carolyn White 2016 Director $26,216 $0 CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS PARENT CHILD CENTER
Traci Moore 2014 Executive Di $26,164 $0 UNITED WAY OF RUTLAND COUNTY VERMONT INC
Patti Randall 2016 Ass'T Exec Director $26,163 $0 VERMONT CHILDREN S ALLIANCE INC
Rebecca Seibel 2017 Librarian $26,144 $0 MORRILL MEMORIAL LIBRARY

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.