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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Milton Willis Jr 2017 Dept Service Of $21,693 $1,988 AMERICAN LEGION
Sandra Macleod 2015 Executive Director $21,690 $0 MUSIC COMPOSITION ONLINE MENTORING PROGRAM INC
Tanya Lachapelle 2017 Former Director $21,685 $0 ROBINS NEST CHILDRENS CENTER INC
Dr Svante Bodin 2017 Vice President $21,608 $0 INTERNATIONAL CRYOSPHERE CLIMATE INITIATIVE
Gina Brown 2013 Exec Dir $21,600 $0 SPRING HILL HORSE RESCUE INC
Carrie Beth Bowin 2014 Executive Di $21,600 $0 FOR ONE ANOTHER FOUNDATION INC
Sharon Schroedesecker 2017 Secretary $21,600 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Carrie Beth Bowin 2013 Executive Di $21,600 $0 FOR ONE ANOTHER FOUNDATION INC
Donald Wright 2014 Secretary $21,599 $0 HOME BASE INC
Linda Treash 2017 Executive Director $21,505 $0 BARN ARTS CENTER FOR THE ARTS COMPANY
Robin Brown 2013 Program Director $21,460 $0 THETFORD AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM INC
Sarah Baxter 2017 Employee $21,441 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM PRESCHOOL AND CHILDCARE CORP
Lexi Shear 2017 Executive Di $21,419 $0 PACEM SCHOOL INC
Peggy Degoosh-Hitchener 2016 Executive Director - No Voting Rights $21,346 $0 VERMONT CONGREGATIONAL HOME INC
Gary Marcotte 2013 Manager $21,323 $0 BARTON CHAMBERS APARTMENTS INC
Susan Hammond 2014 Executive Director, Board Member And Secretary Of The Board $21,323 $4,180 WAR LEGACIES PROJECT INC
Charlie Karparis 2015 Club Manager $21,319 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Julie Brophy 2013 Director $21,314 $0 JOURNEY NORTH
Alexandra Smith 2013 International Placement Coordinator $21,280 $0 VOLUNTEERS FOR PEACE INC
Ellis Jacobson 2017 Board Member $21,275 $0 TRUSTEES OF THE WOOD ART GALLERY
Susan Sawyer Trustee 2015 & Educator $21,269 $394 FOUR WINDS NATURE INSTITUTEINCORPORATED
Charlie Karparis 2016 Club Manager $21,233 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Mickey Stone 2017 Director $21,225 $0 VERMONT MOUNTAIN BIKE ADVOCATE INC
Adam Kane 2013 Executive Director $21,223 $0 FAIRBANKS MUSEUM AND PLANETARIUM
Charlie Karparis 2014 Assistant Finan $21,200 $0 AMERICAN LEGION

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.