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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Claire Raudonat 2013 Prog Coordinator $21,154 $0 ESSEX CHIPS INC
Karen Mittelman 2017 Executive Director $21,146 $498 VERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC
Claire Mahoney 2013 $21,144 $0 THE BELLWETHER SCHOOL AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC
Ed E Ryan Jr 2013 Program Director $21,047 $0 LYNDON EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVE RESOURCES NETWORK INC
Eli Harrington 2015 Executive Director $21,033 $0 TECHNOLOGY FOR TOMORROW INC
Eric Tidblom 2013 Trustee $21,000 $4,029 HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION
Charlie Karparis 2013 Director $21,000 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Avaloy Lanning Term 13115 2014 Executive Director $21,000 $0 BENNINGTON COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
William Polk 2016 Assistant Treasurer (Non-Voting) $21,000 $0 PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC
Matt Rosensteele 2016 Executive Director $20,975 $0 PLANET BLUEWATER CORPORATION
Rev David J Theroux Sse 2015 Trustee $20,935 $0 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Barbara Ann Cochran 2017 Director $20,900 $0 COCHRANS SKI AREA INC
Richard Brockway 2016 Treasurer $20,890 $0 VT LIFE & HEALTH INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION
Corinne Brochu 2016 Ex Officio $20,824 $0 ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL
Mary Rose Dougherty 2017 Exec Director $20,780 $0 BARRE AREA SENIOR CENTER INC
Kyle Hibbard 2014 Director $20,738 $0 POKER HILL SCHOOL INC
William Brim 2017 Former Executive Director $20,717 $0 TURNING POINT CENTER OF ADDISONCOUNTY INC
John Pierce Former 2013 Executive Dir. $20,676 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION RECOVERY INC
Elizabeth Stott 2013 Promotions $20,673 $0 OLDCASTLE PRODUCTIONS
Richard Howe 2013 Production Director $20,655 $0 OLDCASTLE PRODUCTIONS
Thaddeus Cooke 2014 Treasurer $20,650 $0 NEW MORAN INC
Erick Crockenberg 2014 Vice President $20,650 $0 NEW MORAN INC
Elin A Treanor 2015 Cfo $20,625 $14,152 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Kathy Avellino 2014 Assistant Director $20,582 $0 WOODSTOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
Donald Wright 2014 Exec Director $20,515 $0 VERY MERRY THEATRE

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.