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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Rita Copeland 2016 Ex. Director $24,960 $0 TWIN VALLEY SENIORS INC
Susan Fayette 2014 Director Of Development $24,954 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
Jennifer Poehlmann 2016 Exec Director $24,940 $0 VERMONT CHILDREN S ALLIANCE INC
Peggy Gibson 2013 Exec Director $24,923 $0 ORLEANS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Pattrice Jones 2015 Vice-Preside $24,923 $0 VINE-VEGANISM IS THE NEXT EVOLUTION INCORPORATED
Sasha K Bianchi 2016 Executive Director $24,913 $2,603 VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INSTITUTE INC
Collin Kimball 2017 Programming $24,851 $0 FALLS AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Debra Wyman 2017 Director $24,825 $0 HOME AWAY FROM HOME
Cristina Maddocks 2017 Former Exec $24,784 $841 NORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL INC
Alexandra Smith 2014 International Placement Coordinator $24,764 $0 VOLUNTEERS FOR PEACE INC
Nate Peart 2017 Train. Off. $24,735 $0 ORLEANS EMERGENCY UNIT INC
Rev Msgr Peter Routhier 2013 Board Member $24,730 $0 VERMONT CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC
Nicolas Ellis 2013 President $24,700 $0 MEDLIFE
Tayo Gabler 2015 Vice President/Treasurer $24,648 $0 HOME BASE INC
Lexi Shear 2014 Executive Di $24,631 $0 PACEM SCHOOL INC
Jon Hoover 2017 Cd $24,619 $0 WESTGATE HOUSING INC
Jessica Jackson 2014 Prog Coordinator $24,563 $0 ESSEX CHIPS INC
Ron Furman 2015 Manager $24,555 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Michelle Connor 2016 Secretary $24,519 $16,114 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Alan Smith Sr 2016 Adjutant $24,505 $0 AMERICAN LEGION POST 19
Burton D Tepfer Md 2014 Board Member $24,500 $0 BRATTLEBORO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Erin Evans 2013 Program Coordinator $24,486 $0 CYSTIC FIBROSIS LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION
Erika Floriani 2015 Bookkeeping $24,457 $0 OLDCASTLE PRODUCTIONS
Donald Wright 2015 Director $24,441 $0 HOME BASE INC
L Paul Irish 2017 Executive Director $24,415 $0 VT INFO TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING

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.