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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Elaine Anderson 2015 Secretary $25,700 $0 AURORA SCHOOL
Mark Cross 2016 Director $25,668 $0 FIRST STEP RECOVERY HOUSE INC
Judy Ververs 2016 Trustee/Teacher $25,626 $900 LAKE CHAMPLAIN WALDORF SCHOOL
Jane Williamson 2017 Executive Di $25,600 $0 ROKEBY MUSEUM INC
Jane Williamson 2016 Executive Di $25,600 $0 ROKEBY MUSEUM INC
Clair Gear 2017 Executive Dir. $25,577 $0 YESTERMORROW INC
Harriet Dumas 2014 Director $25,544 $0 HARTLAND COOPERATIVE NURSERY SCHOOL
Jacqueline Fischer 2013 Executive Director $25,518 $2,819 OTTAUQUECHEE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP
Emma Schumann 2014 Exec Directo $25,500 $0 WHITE RIVER VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Susan Pirie 2016 Exec Director/Ceo $25,500 $2,309 SOUTH ROYALTON AREA SENIOR CITIZENS
Ashley Bennett 2013 Director $25,497 $2,500 KIDS REHABGYM INC
Adriana Curutchet 2015 Secretary And Treasurer $25,440 $0 THE BRIDGEWATER SUSTAINABLE EARTH FOUNDATION INC
Marilyn Binagi-Brault 2014 Executive Director $25,377 $0 BARRE AREA SENIOR CENTER INC
Jenny Mckenna 2014 Development Director $25,359 $300 UPPER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
George Cook 2016 Club Director $25,325 $0 CAPITAL SOCCER CLUB INC
George Cook 2017 Club Director $25,325 $0 CAPITAL SOCCER CLUB INC
Rosanna Lak 2017 Executive Director - Past $25,308 $2,500 VERMONT PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION INC
Susan Pirie 2013 Exec Director/Ceo $25,300 $2,500 SOUTH ROYALTON AREA SENIOR CITIZENS
Susan Pirie 2015 Exec Director/Ceo $25,300 $2,371 SOUTH ROYALTON AREA SENIOR CITIZENS
Susan Marmer 2013 Former Exec Dir $25,243 $0 NORTHSHIRE CIVIC CENTER INC
Maria Graham 2017 Executive Director/President $25,238 $0 JUNEBUG MOTHER AND CHILD INC
Jennifer Weinstein 2014 Director $25,231 $0 SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INCORPORATED
James Nagle 2017 President/Treas $25,200 $0 MIDDLE GRADES COLLABORATIVE
Ann Smith 2017 Former Exec.Dir. $25,198 $0 FRIENDS OF THE WINOOSKI RIVER INCORPORATED
Brian Benoit 2015 Director $25,164 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY RESCUE 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.